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She was “La Divina” – the divine, the “Primadonna assoluta”, the queen of bel canto – Maria Anna Cecilia Sophia Kalogeropoulou, as Maria Callas was actually called. 100 years ago on Saturday, the greatest opera star of the 1950s and 60s was born in New York. Callas spared nothing and no one, least of all her unmistakable soprano, with which she always brought the audience to bravos and long-lasting applause as Norma, Carmen or Medea.
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