Monday, December 2, 2013

Maria Callas Google Doodle Continues Celebration Of Opera Singers


"Doodles are the fun, surprising, and sometimes spontaneous changes that are made to the Google logo to celebrate holidays, anniversaries, and the lives of famous artists, pioneers, and scientists." [Source] Today the web portal celebrates the birth of soprano Maria Callas by featuring her front and center above the search box. Other opera singers that have been honored in the past include:


Feodor Chaliapin

Leyla Gencer

Luciano Pavarotti

Dame Nellie Melba

Solomiya Krushelnytska
Even the Sydney Opera House has been featured!

We didn't forget about the composers, they can be found after the jump.


Antonio Vivaldi

Bela Bartok

Clara Schumann

Claude Debussy

Enrique Granados

Franz Liszt

Frederic Chopin

Gioachino Rossini

Giuseppe Verdi

Heitor Villa-Lobos

Igor Stravinsky

Manuel de Falla

Nino Rota

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Robert Schumann

Sergei Prokofiev

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Zoltán Kodály