Callas by Attila Csampai 1996, Hardcover: items on eBay.com

Publisher's Note
Leonard Bernstein once called her "...the greatest artist of the world". Indeed, the inimitable Maria Callas (1923-1977) continues to fascinate and enthrall opera lovers and cult followers even two decades after her death. Her unique voice and operatic art, preserved on innumerable studio and live recordings, generates new fans with each passing year. No less captivating is her glamorous yet tragic fairy-tale life. Callas: Images of a Legend captures the incomparable musical genius and personal relationships of the star, as revealed through photographs of her stage performances, portraits, press photos and private snapshots. Photographers from all over the world - Cecil Beaton, Horst, and Gordon Parks, to name but a few - have contributed to this unusual pictorial documentation. In this gloriously produced book, Callas is seen working and relaxing with such notables as Luchino Visconti, Leonard Bernstein, Elsa Maxwell, Aristoteles Onassis, Rudolf Bing, Sir Winston Churchill, Grace Kelly, Prince Rainier, Liz Taylor, and many others. But, perhaps even more compelling are photos of Callas on stage, in the roles she made her own as Norma, Medea, Tosca, Marta, La Gioconda, Isolde, Turandot, Aida, Leonora, and Violetta. These images are revealing testimonials to the overpowering stage presence and outstanding acting abilities of Maria Callas.

Industry Reviews
"Though appreciating Callas without hearing her voice is difficult, the performance photographs do illustrate the unmatched passion and dramatic skill she brought to her art, an intensity that made them so much more than performances, they defined larger than life."
Los Angeles Times Book Review - Kenneth Turan (10/20/1996)

"Following a sensitive and knowledgeable textual introduction, an album of photographs traces the life of Callas from childhood to her last year (1977), capturing her in formal pose and in dynamic stage performance and relaxing at the seaside or parties. A legend in her lifetime, a cult figure after death, Callas' celebrity spilled well beyond the confines of the operatic community, and although this wonderfully engrossing book will not substitute for reading a standard biography, it nonetheless makes a vastly pleasing, informative adjunct. "
Booklist - Brad Hooper (11/01/1996)

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