Prima donnas? What prima donnas? From: Opera News | Date: November 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright Metropolitan Opera Guild, Incorporated Nov 2003. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

At the Metropolitan Opera, in the early 1960s, when I served as Rudolf Bing's private secretary for a time, there were a lot of great sopranos - but not so many prima donnas. The most temperamental one of that era was Maria Callas. Her legendary temperament came to me via the Met files and secondhand gossip, because Mr. Bing had fired her just before I started working in his office.

It wasn't easy dealing with a prima donna whose husband kept getting in the way. In those few weeks in 1959, before it became definite that Callas wouldn't return to the Met to sing Lady Macbeth, Bing tried to ...

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