Listeners will have a grand time with Daisy Goodwin’s historical novel about famed opera singer Maria Callas, performed with a versatile narration by Lorelei King. Host Jo Reed and AudioFile’s Robin Whitten discuss Goodwin’s imagining of Callas’s glamorous and haunting life. King gives Callas a slightly detached, poised tone as she rehearses and performs, and socializes with the rich and famous of the 1950s and ’60s—including Elizabeth Taylor, Grace Kelly, and, of course, her longtime lover, Aristotle Onassis. Listeners will feel as though they are globe-trotting alongside Callas as she performs in classic opera houses of Europe and the U.S.

Read the full review of the audiobook on AudioFile’s website. Published by Macmillan Audio.

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