"Tania Maria's second Concord release (which, as with her other output, has been reissued on CD) is still one of her best sets. The repertoire — five of her originals, "Imagine," and "Cry Me a River" — is diverse; the band (a sextet with two percussionists and guitarist Eddie Duran) is excellent and there is plenty of space for Maria's keyboard work in addition to her exuberant vocals. Throughout the set of Brazilian jazz-pop, Tania Maria is heard in prime form, making this an excellent introduction to her enthusiastic music."

The story centers on a sophomore named Kanako who enrolls in all-girls school because she has a phobia of men and wants to find her destined yuri partner.
She meets a captivating freshman named Mariya who fits her criteria — except her seemingly ideal mate happens to be a cross-dressing sadistic boy.

Me?
A leader?
Okay, I did prove that there's more to Inside than we knew.
That a whole world exists beyond this cube we live in. And finding that led to a major rebellion—between worker scrubs like me and the snobby uppers who rule our world. Make that ruled.

Drawn in all but one instance from material issued previously on DVD by EMI, this video tribute to Maria Callas, marking the 30th anniversary of her death in September 1977, does its job for the most part strikingly well. In fact, there’s one item—a film of Callas singing “Casta diva” from an RAI-Rome New Year’s Eve telecast at 9 p.m. on December 31, 1957—that may in itself warrant your purchase of this DVD. Missing from the chronology of filmed performances in the final edition of John Ardoin’s The Callas Legacy (4th edition; Amadeus Press, 1995), and missing also from some of the “complete” performance chronologies elsewhere in the Callas literature, it appears here, “for the first time on DVD,” as a “special bonus feature”—one that I’d never previously encountered in any format. In his book Maria Meneghini Callas (Northeastern University Press, 1992), Michael Scott writes that this was “one of the first Eurovision Telecasts,” that it was “transmitted throughout western Europe,” and that only the aria proper (which is to say, the cavatina) was included, without the introductory recitative or cabaletta. So that answers the question of whether more footage might be lurking elsewhere. A dress rehearsal for the complete opera had taken place earlier the same day; but the first performance of the run, on January 2, 1958, at Rome’s Teatro dell’Opera, had to be curtailed when Callas withdrew after the first act due to illness. (Anita Cerquetti filled in for the remaining three performances.) Yes, this was the time of Callas’s infamous “Rome walkout,” perhaps the most notorious scandal of her career. Yet for this brief telecast, and despite some health-related concerns in the preceding few days, there was clearly no significant problem. This is a historic document.

This volatile opera diva was born in New York City to Greek йmigrйs in 1923. Her father set up a pharmacy and changed the family name from Kalogeropoulos to Callas. As a child Maria studied the piano.

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