Prima Donnas | Helen Wallace

Catherine Malfitano made her name playing Tosca – now she's directing diva-in-waiting Amanda Echalaz in the same roleI am in a musty old dressing room in south London with two Toscas. On the saggy beige sofas, the sopranos glow like two exotic flowers, framed by a dirty window, behind which the sky is leaden. One is the stately, raven-haired New Yorker Catherine Malfitano, who made Puccini's heroine "real" to millions of viewers in the 1992 live telecast from Rome with Placido Domingo, which ...

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