Callas as commodity

Maria Callas has been a commodity at least since her Italian début, or perhaps since her mother reportedly urged her to “befriend” occupying soldiers in wartime Athens, or perhaps since her childhood grind of talent contests and the like.

The following links are offered almost without comment. (Horrible as they are, they’re no worse than rubbish bins, I think.)

• Bella armchairs in Maria Callas fabric
• The “Callas bungalow” on Greece’s Halkidiki peninsula
  
• The Maria Callas Experience on board the Christina O (with new, excruciating details since the last time I posted about it)
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