"One day I will write my autobiography. I would like to write it myself to better illuminate the events. So many lies have been told about me..."

Thanks to this book, which includes letters from the great soprano, as well as her two attempts to write her memoirs (in 1957 and 1977), Maria Callas's wish finally comes true.

From her difficult childhood in New York to the years of war and occupation in Athens, from her timid first steps in the world of opera to worldwide recognition, scandals, and personal trials, from her idealized love for her husband to her passionate affair with Onassis, this edition gives us the chance to discover the reality behind the myth for the first time.

Sometimes, Maria unfolds before us, a sensitive and fragile woman, and at other times, the legend Callas, often a victim of her great name, in constant anguish over the state of her voice, until her untimely death at the age of just 53 in the solitude of her Paris apartment.

The thrilling and captivating self-portrait of the greatest voice of the 20th century.