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MARIA CALLAS: THE WOMAN BEHIND THE LEGEND by Arianna Stassinopoulos; Simon & Schuster; 383 pages; $15.95
Franco Zeffirelli said that she did as much as Verdi for Italian opera. Conductor Carlo Maria Giulini said, "It is no fabricated legend. In my entire experience of the theater, I know of no artist like Maria Callas." Her private life, much of it conducted in public, was also the...
Her first and most enduring passion was hatred for her mother, a flighty but drivingly ambitious woman. Callas was born in 1923, shortly after the family arrived in New York from Greece. When Maria was a teenager, her mother took her back to Athens. During World War II, she sang...
ALBERT INNAURATO'S Gemini begins with a deafening blast of construction, a counter-blast of Maria Callas and a volley of shrieks and screams. The protagonist, Francis Geminiani, a Harvard junior back home in Philadelphia for the summer, leans out his second-story window, plants a speaker on the sill...
Bizet, Brahms and Ravel--Deborah Callas, vocalist: Quincy House JCR, 3 p.m.