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 She turned herself from a heavy woman into a svelte and glamorous one after a 
mid-career weight loss, which might have contributed to her vocal decline and 
the premature end of her career. The press exulted in publicizing Callas's 
allegedly temperamental behaviour, her supposed rivalry with Renata Tebaldi and 
her love affair with Aristotle Onassis. Her dramatic life and personal tragedy 
have often overshadowed Callas the artist in the popular press. However, her 
artistic achievements were such that Leonard Bernstein called her "the Bible of 
opera";[2] and her influence was so enduring that, in 2006, Opera News wrote of 
her: "Nearly thirty years after her death, she's still the definition of the 
diva as artist—and still one of classical music's best-selling vocalists."[3]

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