Forty years after her death, Maria Callas (1923-1977) is still the world’s most famous opera singer. Just as he succeeded in gathering hard-to-find private films for his documentary Maria by Callas, Tom Volf has assembled Callas’s letters to Onassis, her mother, her friends, and admirers, translated from Italian and English and published here for the first time. This book gives readers an intimate artistic and romantic glimpse at a consummate diva who led a life like none other. Also included is the beginning of a memoir Callas wrote in 1957, recounting her childhood and youth, as well as her final correspondence, marked with a feelings of sadness and abandonment.