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Comedian Tom Allen and guests explore the scandalous lives of classical music's legends.

Join comedian Tom Allen and celebrity guests as they explore the scandalous lives of classical music's legends to work out if they were angelic geniuses... or grade A monsters.

Welcome to Monsters of Music where comedian Tom Allen and celebrity guests dig into the scandalous lives of classical music's legends. With the help of conductor and classical music expert Ben Gernon, our guests unearth the facts to decide whether these classical characters were angelic geniuses or grade-A monsters.

Monsters of Music with Tom Allen: The Divine Maria Callas with Arielle Free

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The Divine Maria Callas with Arielle Free

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Maria Callas's life was as dramatic as an operatic storyline. But was she really a Diva?

Maria Callas had a life dramatic enough to have been an opera. But was the singer famously dubbed La Divina really a Diva? Arielle Free joins Tom and Ben to find out.

Maria Callas lived a life dramatic enough to have been an operatic storyline in its own right. From ending up in a love triangle with Jackie Kennedy to being served with legal papers in the middle of a performance, Maria's life was filled with scandal, betrayal and heartbreak. 
But was the singer who started her life quite literally singing for her supper the Diva her contemporaries made her out to be? Did the tragedies she faced throughout her life eclipse her musical legacy? In this episode radio presenter and DJ Arielle Free traces the extraordinary highs and lows of Maria's life to find out if she was a villain, a victim, or somewhere in between. 

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