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Someone Possessed. Maria Callas was still fat and half sick. She was inclined to break out in rashes and blotches; she was often feverish; her legs became painfully swollen. She took her resentments out on the people around her. Her first victim was another soprano, Renata Tebaldi, long-standing favorite...
Terrible Wrath. Callas had also turned bitterly against her mother. "I'll never forgive her," she says, "for taking my childhood away. During all the years I should have been playing and growing up, I was singing or making money. Everything I did for them was mostly good and...
Professionally, Callas is just as ruthless. This year she broke with the maestro who helped her first and most, Conductor Serafin. Her complaint: he recorded Traviata with another soprano. Her decision automatically eliminates Serafin from his old job as conductor for her opera recordings and the old man is finding...
Onstage, Callas' thirst for personal acclaim is insatiable. She grabs solo curtain calls whenever she can, even after another singer's big scene. Backstage in Rome. Basso Boris Christoff once seized her with one big paw, forced her to stand still. "Now. Maria," he decreed, "either we all...
Absolutely Luscious. Between rehearsals and curtain calls. Callas is one of the least troublesome of stars. Impresarios who have broken their hearts and their pocketbooks getting her signature do not have to worry about further dickering, and rarely about temperamental outbursts. Callas arrives on time at rehearsals ; at recording sessions...