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She might have been happy as only a wife and mother, claims Soprano Maria Callas, 50. "There have been two great loves in my life," she told a Miami Herald interviewer. "My husband and another man." But fate had other plans. The plump twelve-year-old who belted out Caro...
Last October, emerging from an eight-year, self-imposed exile-she had got into some bad singing habits and the voice was threadbare-Callas embarked on a nine-month international concert tour, given with her old friend, Tenor Giuseppe di Stefano.
Docile Diva. Though she began the tour by postponing two concerts, Callas is a more docile diva now. "I don't know how it will go; I hope I sing well," she admitted before singing in Philadelphia.
The turning point came in Boston. With Di Stefano felled by bronchitis, Callas summoned the courage to go on alone. The response was so warm that she sailed proudly into Manhattan's Carnegie Hall. "You are opera!" yelled a fan from the balcony. Across the footlights Callas confided that...
The day that Diva Maria Callas, 50, was to appear at her first New York recital in nine years, the phone rang at Impresario Sol Hurok's hotel. There was, said the operator, a lady friend of 20 years' standing who wished to speak to him. "That'...