Image of Maria Callas

Empress, queen, goddess, sorceress, hard-working magician - in short, divine. You took away everything with you. Deprived of its enchantress, the red and gold pit functions no longer. Those over- whelming gold-fringed curtains, those shadowed ground-floor boxes, those loges, those galleries, those balconies, those rows of plush seats, those arc lights, those spotlights, those marble stairs, they are YOU! - Yves Saint Laurent to Maria Callas