Now You Shall Know Maria Callas sings the aria “Voi lo sapete” from Cavalleria Rusticana The aeroplane is hung in the sky from a clever hook, so we seem to inhabit a thrumming stillness, but we believe we are travelling forward. A little this way and a little that way, up and then down as if we are nosing out a scent. And there is a singing in my ears. This is cleverness. Recalled from history, the voice of Maria Callas and the presence of that audience, their rapt surrendering translated into a thing of monstrous…
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