Monica Bellucci reveals why she took on role as opera singer Maria Callas in one-woman show

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Italian actress Monica Bellucci and her one-woman show Maria Callas: Letters And Memoirs hits the stage at the Beacon Theatre in New York City for one night only on Friday, January 27.The stage show, which marks the star's first time acting in a play, has been an international hit since it began its run with Bellucci as the legendary opera singer at Paris' Théâtre Marigny in 2019.For Bellucci, who made her stage debut with Letters And Memoirs, she never thought the show would go on to become such a global phenomenon.'It was crazy, and we never expected to come to New York,' the native of Città di Castello, Umbria, Italy, 58, confessed to People. 'And it's such a sign that we came to New York because Callas was born in New York in 1923, and we finish the tour in 2023, 100 years later when she was born.

So it is a beautiful sign for me.' Global hit: Monica Bellucci, 58, explained to People what inspired her to take on her first stage show playing legendary opera singer Maria Callas in Letters And Memoirs, ahead of a one-night engagement at the Beacon Theatre in New York City on Friday, January 27Letters And Memoirs went on to play around the world with stops in Athens, Rome, Milan, London, and Los Angeles, just before arriving in New York, which was Callas' hometown.Directed by Tom Volf and accompanied by the Wordless Music Orchestra, Bellucci recites Callas's previously unpublished letters and writings to tell her full life story in her own words.

During her performance, the actress interprets the writings of Callas (born Maria Anna Cecilia Sophie Kalogeropoulou), beginning with her childhood in New York and her start at the opera in Italy, to the pinnacle of world fame, which in the end was complicated by scandal, love.