Master Class

In this play, Maria Callas,  the late opera icon is conjured not as a ghost but as a force – imperious, wounded, and unwilling to fade. Set in a rehearsal room masquerading as a classroom, she listens as students perform arias, dissecting each note with the precision of someone who’s sung through heartbreak and survived it. But this isn’t about technique. It’s about memory, ego, decline – a woman rehearsing not music, but her own myth. The music of Bellini, Verdi and Puccini doesn’t soothe so much as provoke, stirring something between reverence and regret. Reality fractures. Time folds. The result is less performance, more possession. What emerges is a portrait not of a diva, but of a woman learning how to be remembered. The performance is in Thai, with English subtitles provided. Jun 20-22 and 27-29. B750-850 via here. RCB Forum, River City Bangkok, 4pm and 7pm onwards