Portrait of Maria Callas, from the series “The Thrilling ones”. Maria Calas is an absolute thriller. She will not have spared her heart and her body in her singing. A relentless worker, she contained, behind a power of character and an immense talent, a sensitive sensitivity. She will have used her body to her art, and she gave her life as a woman to the stage. Divided, torn between the lover and the singer, as if being both was not possible for her, she will die when she can no longer sing. Alice Laverty chooses to paint her at the zenith of her career, but also there where her body will be more exhausted. She had come out “from her chrysalis” to become a butterfly which had to remain diaphanous.