"Maria Callas: A Musical Biography"
by Robert Levine

Exercise by Michael A. Riccioli - 2005
Source: Postscript© [http://www.psbooks.co.uk]

Gap-filling exercise

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Illustrated with photographs, Robert Levine's biography traces Maria Callas from the first intimation of her through to her career and her demise, focusing on La Divina's , her influence, her critical and the that have made her a . What sets this biography from other studies of Callas is Levine's analysis of Callas's major , precisely keyed to the two full-length CDs (30 tracks) in the book.