"One day I will write my autobiography. I would like to write it myself, so as to better illuminate the events. So many lies have been told about me..." Thanks to this book, which includes letters from the great soprano, as well as her two attempts to write her memoirs (in 1957 and 1977), Maria Callas's wish finally becomes reality. From her difficult childhood in New York to the years of war and Occupation in Athens, from her tentative first steps in the world of opera to worldwide recognition, scandals, and personal trials, from her idealized love for her husband to her passionate affair with Onassis, this edition offers the opportunity to discover the reality behind the myth for the first time. Sometimes Maria, a sensitive and fragile woman, unfolds before us, and other times the legend Callas, often a victim of her great name, in constant anxiety about the condition of her voice, until her untimely death at the age of just 53, in the solitude of her Paris apartment. The fascinating and captivating self-portrait of the greatest voice of the 20th century.