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Long antique dress, draped in cream-white silk jersey, wide draped neckline, fitted waist and long skirt. Long skirt in white muslin with silver braid and mounted on a belt braided with silver braid.

First cape: Long cape in red velvet edged with embroidery and gold braid.

Second cape: Long asymmetrical cape in slate blue velvet trimmed with silver braid appliques on the edge.

Marcel Escoffier's costumes worn by Maria Callas for the role of Norma (Acts I and IV) in "Norma", Opera by Vincenzo Bellini, Libretto by Felice Romani.

Set designer: Franco Zeffirelli

Opéra national de Paris, Palais Garnier, 1964-1965.

Costumes preserved at the Centre National du Costume de Scene in Moulins.

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Maria Vetsera (Catherine Deneuve) White ballgown.. Mayerling (1968).. Costume by Marcel Escoffier.

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Costume appreciation: Edwige Feuillère as Nastasya Filippovna in L’IDIOT (1946)

Costumes by Marcel Escoffier

Orphée (Jean Cocteau, 1950).

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Costume designed by Marcel Escoffier for Maria Callas in the Paris Opera's 1964 performance of Vencenzo Bellini's “Norma”

The action takes place in Gaul under the Roman occupation, and exposes the love affair between Pollione, Roman proconsul, Norma, his former companion, and the young Adalgisa. The background is the uprising of the Gallic people against the occupier, led by the druid Oroveso.

Norma, high priestess of the druidic temple who had two children of Pollione (breaking her chastity vows) Roman proconsul, discovers that her lover is in love with her friend a young priestess Adalgisa. Norma tries to convince him to give up Adalgisa and return to her, but he refuses. Norma then publicly confesses her fault and is sentenced to death. Pollione is convicted for pursuing Adalgisa in the temple and goes to the stake with Norma.

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