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After duly stabbing herself to wind up a soaring performance in Madame Butterfly, Hell's-Kitchen-born Soprano Maria Meneghini Callas (TIME, Nov. 21) strode offstage in Chicago's Civic Opera House, applause still caressing her ears. She fluttered straight into an ambush party of eight process servers...
To the Solar Plexus. Soprano Callas had just sung Leonora in Verdi's // Trovatore and once more affirmed her position as the world's most exciting opera singer. With the exception of one high note in her last big aria that degenerated into a sickly wobble, the whole...
For Art's Sake? But Callas' singing, remarkable as it is, accounts for only part of her impact. To the unregenerate art of operatic acting, she brings a powerful personality. It shows in the expressive toss of her head as she trills some word less coloratura, in the...
Obviously, the Callas talent would be an asset to any opera company, and the Metropolitan Opera's General Manager Rudolf Bing has coveted it for years. But Soprano Callas-who insists that she must be the highest-paid member of any company in which she sings-indignantly refused the...
Since then, the Met has decided that it cannot afford not to afford Callas. "In May, Mr. Bing came to Italy," she explained last week. "He saw me. We spoke. We were all right together." Both Manager Bing and Soprano Callas steadfastly refused to disclose her salary, but educated guesses...