Amazon.com: Maria Callas and the Great Sopranos: Ludwig van Beethoven, Vincenzo Bellini, Gustave Charpentier, Umberto Giordano, Charles Gounod, Antonio Lotti, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Giacomo Puccini, Gioachino Rossini, Giuseppe Verdi, Arturo Basile, Eugene Ormandy, George W. Byng, Josef A. Pasternack, Josef Krips, Lorenzo Molajoli, Rosario Bourdon, Stanford Robinson, Walter B. Rogers, Walter Süsskind: Music
Maria Callas was born Maria Anna Sophia Cecilia Kalogeropoulou in New York on 2 December 1923 to Greek immigrant parents Evangelia and George Kalogeropoulos. In 1937 Evangelia separated from her husband and returned with her two daughters Maria and Jackie to Greece, where she intended to give them the musical education she could not afford in America. Maria began her vocal studies with the soprano… Read more in Amazon's Maria Callas Store