Music: Callas Comes Back

"I believe I must be just a little American kid at the back of my mind because I wanted someone, Prince Charming, to come in and take me away. "

She might have been happy as only a wife and mother, claims Soprano Maria Callas, 50. "There have been two great loves in my life," she told a Miami Herald interviewer. "My husband and another man." But fate had other plans. The plump twelve-year-old who belted out Caro Nome on the Original Amateur Hour grew up to be the most famous opera singer of her generation, a tempestuous diva whose emotional...

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