The world famous performance artist will depict La Divina in new video artwork.

One of the world’s most acclaimed and in-demand performance artist Marina Abramović has announced that she will finally begin production in 2015 on a new video art work inspired by Maria Callas. Abramović, who devised the premise for the work, titled Seven Deaths, 25 years ago, will be exploring two major personal obsessions in the work: mortality and Maria Callas.

Inspired not only by the roles that defined Callas’ operatic career, but also by ‘La Divina’s’ tragic personal life, seven short films will depict Abromović as Callas performing the death scenes from operas including Carmen, La Traviata, Madam Butterfly and Tosca. The piece will also explore Callas’ death from a heart attack in 1977, which Abramović likens to the deaths of the heroines she spent her life portraying, “She died of a broken heart.”

Abramović has described the piece as exploring the “unbelievably romantic idea of dying for love.” To realise the project she has assembled a impressive team of collaborators including directors Roman Polanski, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Marco Brambilla, Giada Colagrande and Yorgos...