Her mother blackmailed her, her husband Giovanni Battista Meneghini stole from her, and shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis was violent and abandoned her for Jackie Kennedy. Soprano Maria Callas was adored by audiences worldwide but she never knew real love offstage, and her life was even more tragic than previously realised, according to research.
One letter refers to the then president of the Juilliard School of music in New York, a married man, turning the faculty against her and stopping her coming back for another term after she rejected his advances. So, naturally, as I did not feel so towards him, he is against me. Her performances of Tosca at Covent Garden have been described as among the greatest opera experiences of all time.
In the first month they spend their first money to make a home for their parents and spoil them with luxuriesโฆ What have you got to say, Maria? In fact, he had a minor ailment. The material also casts light on her great soprano rival, Renata Tebaldi, whom she had denigrated in likening their respective voices to champagne and Coca-Cola, while Tebaldi had accused Callas of lacking a heart.
But they each dismissed their prima donna duel of the s as a myth made up by the media. Callas died in aged The unpublished material also gives new insights into her health problems, which affected her performances in the s, and her dependence on drugs. She lost her voice several times.
It also explains the loss of her singing voice, which cut her career short. Alone in her Parisian apartment, she relied on her estranged sister, Jackie, and companion, Vasso Devetzi, to supply her with [a sedative]. Her life was full of tragedy, but I wanted to give her her voice. Maria Callas with lover Aristotle Onassis in This article is more than 3 years old.
