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...MARIA CALLAS: THE WOMAN BEHIND THE LEGEND by Arianna Stassinopoulos; Simon & Schuster; 383 pages...
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 stuff of legend. She had the iron whim and comet-like will, the greed, love and hatred of someone strong enough to overturn the laws of life...
...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 major roles at the opera house, but in 1945 her teacher wisely decided that she should go to Italy and get the best training. Instead, Maria left without warning anyone, for Manhattan...
Despite the team's convincing loss, freshmen Maria Pe and Erica Schulman gave the small crowd something to cheer about by winning their singles matches...
...racquetwomen finished off the fall with a second place showing at the New England Championships at Amberst. Roberts and Yardling Maria Pe teamed up to take the doubles title at that meet, but the Crimson narrowly lost the overall crown to Yale...