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Article: Callas at Juilliard: The Master Classes.
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- August 19, 1988
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Callas at Juilliard: The Master Classes
I REMEMBER BEING on a ferry in the middle of Block Island Sound that September day in 1977 when I picked up the New York Times and read on the front page the news that Maria Callas had died of a heart attack at the age of 53 in her Paris apartment. I was too young to have heard Callas in performance at the Metropolitan Opera (where, in any event, she made very few appearances), and I had not listened to her recordings; the name of Maria Callas was mainly associated in my mind with yachts in the Mediterranean and the comical reaction that had greeted Aristotle Onassis's choice of a bride. (Even in those days, it seemed to me ...