Maria Callas Interwiew 1967-1968 Part 1

The conversation begins with a discussion of the indefinable “spell“ which Callas casts. She talks about her economy of gesture and movement onstage and is aware that her presence is magnetic, although she does no understand why. Callas explains why she does not have an agent and talks about the problems she had in obtaining work at the beginning of her “Second“ career in Italy. She also speaks of her early recordings with Cetra and comments on her recording of “Qui La Voce“ from I puritani and mentions Ros