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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...
Visibly frightened, she stayed within the protective circle of Di Stefano...
...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 under the proper conditions, she would be willing to return to the Met. Critics reminisce about past glories and compliment the singer on her youthful beauty. Audiences have been outwardly enthusiastic, but in the lobby, complaints are heard: "I'm disappointed. We work harder than she does." Occasionally, with...
...London always meant the most to me," exulted a magnanimous Maria Callas, 50, after she had ignited the Royal Festival Hall's S.R.O. audience. Ending an eight-year absence from the London stage, Callas shared a program of four duets and three solos each with Tenor Giuseppe di Stefano, 52. Three thousand ticket holders, who had spent an uneasy month of suspense after Callas canceled a previous concert, responded ecstatically. They gave the diva a 30-minute standing ovation, pelted the stage with flowers and finally mobbed her limousine. Exhilarated, Callas declared: "I can go on from here...
GUERRA, NERIO MINUZZO, TITO DE STEFANO...