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On 16 September 2017, it will be 40 years since Maria Callas died in her home in Paris at the age of 53.
Callas’s friend Giovanna Lomazzi was just 20 when the two of them met in Milan in 1952 after a performance of La Gioconda at La Scala. Callas was 29.
She always said that I was her little sister. She needed to create bonds because they were missing in her family.