The Callas Imprint: A Centennial Biography (Paperback)
by Sophia Lambton

Coating opera’s roles in opulence, Maria Callas (1923-1977) is a lyrical enigma. Seductress, villainess, and victor, queen and crouching slave, she is a gallery of guises instrumentalists would kill to engineer… made by a single voice.

But while her craftsmanship has stood the test of time, Callas’ image has contested defamation at the hands of dirt-diggers and opportunists: saboteurs of beauty.

Twelve years in the making, this voluminous labor of love explores the singer with the reverence she dealt her heroines. The Callas Imprint: A Centennial Biography reaps never-before-seen correspondence and archival documents worldwide to illustrate the complex of their multi-faceted creator – closing in on her self-contradictions, self-descriptions, attitudes and habits with empathic scrutiny. It swivels readers through the singer’s on- and offstage scenes and flux of fears and dreams... the double life of all performers.

In unveiling the everyday, this book rolls a vivid film reel starring friends and foes and nobodies: vignettes that make up life.

2024 ARSC AWARDS WINNER: BEST HISTORICAL RESEARCH IN RECORDED CLASSICAL MUSIC

“The Callas Imprint is a revelation: a book worthy of anyone who is interested in learning more about how to live, and live as freely as they will their life to be.” – OperaWire

• Paperback: 676 pages
• Publisher: The Crepuscular Press (November 23, 2023)
• Dimensions: 6 x 1.69 x 9 inches

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