Diva by Daisy Goodwin (St. Martin’s Press, 2023). The 1953 recording of Tosca with Maria Callas once made me cry so hard, I almost had to pull off the road. This is the kind of thing that’s good to know as you start to read Diva, Daisy Goodwin’s new novel about the legendary soprano. This was the colossal gift that Callas possessed: a voice and an acting ability so powerful that she didn’t just play a character, she inhabited it to the full. Her Tosca on that old recording reached out across the decades and grabbed me by the throat. There have been few, before or since, who could do anything like what she did.
Book Review: Diva
Book Review: Diva
Book Review: Diva
Diva by Daisy Goodwin (St. Martin’s Press, 2023). The 1953 recording of Tosca with Maria Callas once made me cry so hard, I almost had to pull off the road. This is the kind of thing that’s good to know as you start to read Diva, Daisy Goodwin’s new novel about the legendary soprano. This was the colossal gift that Callas possessed: a voice and an acting ability so powerful that she didn’t just play a character, she inhabited it to the full. Her Tosca on that old recording reached out across the decades and grabbed me by the throat. There have been few, before or since, who could do anything like what she did.