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...Maria Meneghini Callas, a famous diva. . .Soprano Giovanni Meneghini, her aging husband. . .Bass Elsa Maxwell, her trusted confidante Baritone Evangelia Callas, her estranged mother. . .Contralto Aristotle Onassis, a wealthy shipowner. . .Tenor Athina Onassis, his beautiful young wife. . .Mezzo...
...tokens of their happiness accumulated: a villa at Sirmione, two palaces in Verona, numerous art objects, jewelry, autos, motorboats and joint bank accounts. Their love, it seemed, thrived on money, and money thrived on love. And yet last week, after ten years of this golden idyl. Callas, 35, and Meneghini, 64, announced that they were "definitely and irreparably" separated...
...series of moving recitatives, Meneghini last week poured out the story: "The sea was choppy. I was ill. My wife was in one of her morose, taciturn moods, more of a tigress than ever. Onassis, on the other hand, was transformed. As the sea grew rougher, he became a real sea dog, giving orders right and left. One night my wife returned from a party at the Istanbul Hilton and said she loved another man. After an hour which seemed like an eternity, she admitted that the man was Aristotle Onassis...
...timing was "purely coincidental-it had been coming for a long time." Its real source, she hinted, was her dissatisfaction over her husband's activities as her private impresario. "I am my own boss now." said she, insisting that she would not share another cent she makes with Meneghini. As for Onassis, it wasn't passion, just money, said Callas. "My relations with him involve business matters." One possible Onassis-backed "business matter": a contract to play the lead in a film version of Novelist Hans Habe's serialized German potboiler, Die Primadonna...
...Tuesday, tickets went on sale for the first London performance of Cherubini's Medea in 89 years. Within three hours every seat in the house was sold out. Last week the lucky ticket holders finally got a look at what they had battled so tenaciously to see: Maria Meneghini Callas in the role of Euripides' savagely tormented heroine...