Rupert Christiansen

Can everyone please shut up about Maria Callas?

I’m bored of tales of her martyrdom, and the legacies of her less prized contemporaries have so much to offer

Maria Callas, pictured here in 1958, sacrificed her art to ‘a stupid ambition’ to be ‘a great lady of café society’. Credit: Ullstein Bild / Getty Images
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