Maria Callas: The Voice, The Story (4 Cassettes)

FI Magazine, July 1998
The [HighBridge] audiobook has a narration written by John Ardoin and Michael Wager, spoken by Wager, and illustrated with juicy examples of the diva's art, almost all of them from live performances. Callas herself is interviewed, and if she sometimes sounds paranoid or even demented, well, that's the truth....I thought this four-and-a-half hour show would be maudlin at best and boring at worst. It is neither. It goes like a whirlwind and it is all fascinating.


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Even before her death in 1977, Maria Callas was the subject of controversy and never-ending fascination. Drawn from interviews with Callas, her life is told from her first public appearance to her years as a glamorous international diva. Commentaries and reminiscences by her contemporaries and with Callas herself are interspersed with excerpts from her most memorable live performances, presenting a remarkably frank and heartbreaking portrait of an extraordinary woman. 4 cassettes.


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