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The extraordinary and controversial career of Maria Callas has been matched by remarkable documentation of both her studio and live performances. The problem is, what to collect-unless, like John Ardoin, you collect everything. Ardoin, music critic of the Dallas Morning News, has spent a lifetime studying Callas` performances. He has, as he writes in the new edition of his book ”The Callas Legacy,” ”dealt with every scrap of recorded sound by Callas that I have been able to unearth.”
The first two editions of ”The Callas Legacy,” in 1977 and 1982, preceded the compact disc. In its third edition, to be published in September by Scribner`s, he evaluates every performance issued on compact disc.