How Maria Callas Lost her Voice
Will Crutchfield on the opera star, who, according to legend, ruined her own voice for the sake of vanity and café society. But what she really sacrificed herself to, he writes, was the music.
On Callas's legacy: "She achieved in her singing a level of musicality and technical capacity which places her among the greatest musicians of the century... and, finally, she gave a stunning example—unprecedented—of a major singer going to pieces vocally in mid-career."