The final programme in my series on Maria Callas focuses on her final years and takes a closer look at the woman behind the legend, her relationship with Aristotle Onassis, her artistic legacy and posthumous influence on opera. As the critic Michael Roubinet once noted: “Maria Callas suffered a fate as flamboyant as it was tragic, like her favourite characters, those women who came into their own fully as they submitted to the playing out of their destiny: Norma, Violetta, Tosca, Medea… Happily the recordings are there to pay homage to the artist to whom we owe an eternal debt, and to bear witness to an art which will live forever.” Presented by Adriaan Fuchs. For more information, please visit: www.onandofftherecord.com.