Volume 28, Number 5 · April 2, 1981
Vissi d'arte
By Joseph Kerman
Maria Callas: The Woman Behind the Legend
by Arianna Stassinopoulos
Simon & Schuster, 383 pp., $15.95
Callas: Les Images d'une Voix
by Sergio Segalini
Editions Van de Velde, Paris, 171 pp., 102 francs
Diva: The Life and Death of Maria Callas
by Steven Linakis
Prentice-Hall, 200 pp., $10.95
Maria Callas: A Tribute
by Pierre-Jean Rémy, translated by Catherine Atthill
St. Martin's, 192 pp., $12.95
The Callas Legacy
by John Ardoin
Scribner's, 224 pp., $3.95
When Maria Callas died unexpectedly in 1977, two portraits were found in her Paris apartment. One was of Elvira de Hidalgo, a leading opera singer who became Callas's teacher in Athens between 1940 and 1945 and first identified her proclivity for the bel canto repertory, taught her the technique with exemplary thoroughness, and taught her above all how to study. The other portrait was of the legendary diva Maria Malibran, who was among the first to triumph in that repertory during the 1820s and 1830s. These were icons to the professional Callas. There were no pictures of friends, relatives, or lovers.
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