Every Maria Callas Role, Ranked

In honor of Maria Callas’s centennial (which, depending on who you ask, will be either this Saturday, Sunday, or Monday), Warner Classics has released “La Divina: Maria Callas in All Her Roles,” a ten-pound box set comprising 131 CDs (plus a handful of Blu-Rays). 

If you were to listen to all of these recordings—from the missed opportunities to the canonically Callas—you would also understand Callas’s biography better than many of her actual biographers (a motley crew of writers that includes her own mother and a pre-HuffPost Arianna Huffington). And because I, like La Divina, also make poor life choices, that’s exactly what I did. It’s every Maria Callas role, ranked.