Callas died of a degenerative disease, according to doctors

Written by Sandeep Nehra

The famous soprano Maria Callas, considered one of the greatest singers of the twentieth century, died of a degenerative disease that affected his vocal chords, support two Italian doctors specialists in speech therapy.

According to these experts, Franco Fuss and Nico Paolillo, who presented the results of their research with the University of Bologna (north) at a round table, the soprano was diagnosed with dermatomyositis, a disease that affects the muscles and tissues in general, including those of the larynx.

They emphasize that this disease is treated with cortisone and immunosuppressants, which can ultimately lead to heart failure and that, as the official medical report, Callas died of cardiac arrest.

The information revealed Tuesday by the daily La Stampa, denies that Callas committed suicide after the gradual loss of his voice following a romantic disappointment in his relationship with the eccentric billionaire Greek Aristóteles Onassis, who left in 1968 to marry Jacqueline Kennedy.

The pathologists studied with instruments ultra modern recordings of the singer in the ’50s, his most complete, in the 60s when she began having problems, and in the 70s, marked by a sudden loss of weight and alteration of his voice.

“Fuss, one of the most famous speech of the country, and Paolillo analyzed the latest videos of Callas that show that the muscles no longer met because the thoracic cavity did not inflate when she breathed,” says the newspaper in Turin.

“The decline of the icon of the opera is not due to efforts on his voice or to external causes” such as emotional stress, say experts who have studied one of the most critical moments of his career diva, when could not sing opera Norma in Rome, January 2, 1958, in honor of the Italian president at the time, Giovanni Gronchi, and his wife.

At the end of the first act, after which half the audience was disappointed, Callas had escaped through a back door, “this was not a whim, she was really sick, she had a tracheitis, muscles loose. It was the beginning of the end “, they say.

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