La vida de Maria Callas

Much has been written and said about Maria Callas, one of the myths of the 20th century, but hardly anyone has had access to her private correspondence, some letters in which Maria expressed her most intimate self. Alfonso Signorini, devoted since childhood to the voice of the great artist, had these documents in his hands when he began to write The Life of Maria Callas. So fierce, so fragile, the fictional biography of the diva that she was born in New York in 1923 into a family of Greek immigrants. The entire life of Maria Callas parades through these pages, but not through her successes, but diving into the doubts and fears of a woman who began singing in the worst bars in New York, who was exploited by her mother's greed, that when she arrived in Italy to start a real career, she had to stay in a very low-class pension and that she fought tooth and nail to leave behind the girl she had been. From her fierce crush on Aristotle Onassis, who dumped her for Jackie Kennedy, to her vocal decline, this exciting biography brings the great Callas back to life in a unique and stark portrait of a sad diva who knew both glory and loneliness.