The Callas Imprint

A Centennial BiographySophia Lambton

£24.00

Of all the biographies of La Divina, this one is for sure the most complete… A masterpiece of scientific rigour.
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2024 ARSC AWARDS FINALIST: BEST HISTORICAL RESEARCH IN RECORDED CLASSICAL MUSIC

This new biography, published to mark the centennary of Maria Callas’ birth, is extensively researched from 3395 sources spanning 80 years across 21 countries taking the readers through the singer’s on- and offstage scenes, escorting them through the confounding double life of all performers. Containing new interviews and hitherto unpublished material, new light is cast on one of the most renowned and influential opera singers of the 20th century.

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Seductress, villainess, and victor, queen and crouching slave, she is a gallery of guises instrumentalists would kill to engineer … made by a single voice. But while her craftsmanship has stood the test of time, Callas’ image has contested defamation at the hands of dirt-diggers and opportunists: saboteurs of beauty. Twelve years in the making, this voluminous labour of love explores the singer with the reverence she dealt her heroines. The Callas Imprint: A Centennial Biography reaps never-before-seen correspondence and archival documents worldwide to illustrate the complex of their multi-faceted creator – closing in on her self-contradictions, self-descriptions, attitudes and habits with empathic scrutiny. It swivels readers through the singer’s on- and offstage scenes and flux of fears and dreams … the double life of all performers.

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