It’s 45 years since Maria Callas died in Paris but for opera lovers and diva worshippers of any stripe the Greek soprano with the nickname “La Divina” has never really left us. With the exception of Luciano Pavarotti, no other opera singer in the postwar era became such a household name and, even now, for any sopranos who want to tackle one of the roles that became her touchstones — Bellini’s Norma, Verdi’s Violetta, Donizetti’s Lucia — it is the ghost of Callas who waits in the wings. Pirate video clips continue to surface, remastered versions of her landmark recordings are repackaged. Three and a half years ago Callas arrived in the West End in the form of a hologram, warbling in a spectral
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