Here is another excerpt from Maria Callas’s interview (c. 1969) with Dacia Maraini.
May I ask you something: Do you consider yourself a fortunate woman?The sound clip is from Maria Callas’s 1954 recital, Puccini Heroines.
I feel privileged because I’ve had an extraordinary destiny. I am a creature of destiny. Destiny chose me and wanted me thus. I stand outside of myself and watch my life from without. I see myself clearly, and I see others.
As a woman I consider myself unfortunate because I have neither a man’s affection nor the love of children.
Do you feel nostalgia for your childhood?
No. Because it was not a happy childhood.
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