by Anne Edwards (Author)
Without doubt the twentieth century's most celebrated operatic diva, Maria Callas blazed new paths, set new standards and changed the face of opera for ever. With her incandescent fame,extraordinary voice and dramatic talent, she should have led a sublimely happy life, yet betrayal and tragedy were her constant companions. Callas is both icon and myth, her private life indelibly coloured by passion, vulnerability, rejection, the madness of a voracious press and personal tragedy. The mystery of Callas's last days, the charlatan who preyed upon her, her private angst over Onassis, her thwarted affair with the homosexual Italian director Visconti and her traumatic New York childhood and youthful struggle to survive in war-torn Greece are told in this vivid account. Anne Edwards shows us the real Maria Callas, whose craving for affection and complex neurosis affected not only her life but her music.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 352
Edition: New
Publisher: Gollancz
Published: 04 Apr 2002
ISBN 10: 0752848445
ISBN 13: 9780752848440
Book Overview: A brilliant, fresh and absorbing portrayal of this electric, yet severely troubled, genius Hardback publication accompanied by a major serialisation and an author tour 'Highly readable and thorough in factual detail' SUNDAY TIMES Anne Edwards is the author of several bestselling biographies which have attracted widespread critical acclaim: 'A compellingly readable biography' DAILY MAIL; 'A remarkably full, lively portrait' SUNDAY TIMES (for THE ROAD TO TARA) 'A fact-packed and checked dossier on Streisand which should make it unnecessary for anyone to write about her again for at least another century' Sheridan Morley, SUNDAY TIMES (for STREISAND)
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