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  To write about Maria Callas is always a pleasure, to listen to her is shaking your emotions always. Today marks 48 years since we lost her, since we lost the most extraordinary opera singer in history. She always moves your emotions till the edge of the abyss of every character she sang. No matter if she performed it on stage or not. She dug the skin of every character to squeeze the essence of it. I grow up listening opera. My mother was a great fan of Alfredo Kraus and we have all his recordings among many others. In my mother's collection we had Zeani's Puccini Arias, Sutherland's Portrait, an album by Marilyn Horne singing Lieder... and Callas' La Divina and Duets with di Stefano as well as one single with Casta Diva in side A and Mira o Norma in side B with Stignani. I love all her recordings. In my opinion there was no one soprano to the same level, not to mention nowadays. Yes!, we could prefer another version of this and that title because the whole cast, cond...