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A diva is a celebrated female singer. The Italian term is used to describe a woman of rare, outstanding talent in the world of opera (Maria Callas, Montserrat Caballé) and by extension in theatre and popular music (Tina Turner, Shirley Bassey, Cher, Celine Dion, Madonna, Annie Lennox). The meaning of diva is closely related to that of "prima donna".
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A diva is a celebrated female singer. The Italian term is used to describe a woman of rare, outstanding talent in the world of opera (Maria Callas, Montserrat Caballé) and by extension in theatre and popular music (Tina Turner, Shirley Bassey, Cher, Celine Dion, Madonna, Annie Lennox). The meaning of diva is closely related to that of "prima donna".
The basic sense of the term is "goddess", the feminine of the Latin word divus, "god".
Admiration of divas is a common element of camp culture.
Further Reading
Padva, Gilad (2007). A Yiddish Diva! Requiem for a Fabulous Woman in Avraham Heffner's Film Laura Adler's Last Love. Women & Language 30(1), 30-31.
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External links
- Diva Opera
- Divas Spanish Operatic pop Divas website (Spanish)
- DivasTheSite.com Opera Divas Page
- Guardian.co.uk John Crace: Who'd be an Opera diva? February 4 2006, accessed 17 August 2008
- Laughing Bodies, Eccentric Gestures; Retrospective on female comics and Divas in the films of the 1910s at the Austrian Film Museum
- The New-Diva Disease; TIME Magazine article
