Music:
* Verdi, Nabucco, conducted by Vittorio Gui, live performance, Napoli, 1949
* Verdi, Il trovatore, conducted by Guido Picco, live performance, Mexico City, June 20 1950
* Verdi, Aida, conducted by Oliviero de Fabritiis, live performance, Mexico City, July 3 1951
* Bellini, Norma, conducted by Vittorio Gui, live performance, Covent Garden, London, November 18 1952
* Verdi, Macbeth, conducted by Victor de Sabata, live performance, La Scala, Milan, December 7 1952
* Bellini, I puritani, conducted by Tullio Serafin, studio recording for EMI, March-April 1953
* Mascagni, Cavalleria Rusticana, conducted by Tullio Serafin, studio recording for EMI, August 1953
* Puccini, Tosca, conducted by Victor de Sabata, studio recording for EMI, August 1953. Many, critics and listeners, find this the greatest recording of Tosca ever.
* Cherubini, Medea, conducted by Leonard Bernstein, live performance, La Scala, Milan, December 10 1953
* Leoncavallo, Pagliacci, conducted by Tullio Serafin, studio recording for EMI, June 1954
* Spontini, La vestale, conducted by Antonino Votto, live performance, La Scala, Milan, December 7, 1954
* Verdi, La traviata, conducted by Carlo Maria Giulini, live performance, La Scala, Milan, May 28 1955
* Verdi, Rigoletto, conducted by Tullio Serafin, studio recording for EMI, September 1955
* Donizetti, Lucia di Lammermoor, conducted by Herbert von Karajan, live performance, Berlin, September 29 1955
* Bellini, Norma, conducted by Antonino Votto, live performance, La Scala, Milan, December 7 1955. Described by many as Callas's finest recorded-performance of her career.
* Verdi, Il trovatore, conducted by Herbert von Karajan, studio recording for EMI, August 1956
* Puccini, La boheme, conducted by Antonino Votto, studio recording for EMI, August-September 1956. Like her later recording of Carmen, this was her only performance of the complete opera, as she never appeared onstage in it.
* Verdi, Un ballo in maschera, conducted by Antonino Votto, studio recording for EMI, September 1956
* Rossini, Barber of Seville, conducted by Alceo Galliera, studio recording for EMI in stereo, February 1957
* Bellini, La sonnambula, conducted by Antonino Votto, studio recording for EMI, March 1957
* Donizetti, Anna Bolena, conducted by Gianandrea Gavazzeni, live performance, La Scala, Milan, April 14 1957
* Bellini, La sonnambula, conducted by Antonino Votto, live performance, Cologne, July 4 1957
* Verdi, Un ballo in maschera, conducted by Gianandrea Gavazzeni, live performance, La Scala, Milan, December 7 1957
* Verdi, La traviata, conducted by Franco Ghione, live performance, Lisbon, March 27 1958
* Mad Scenes (excerpts from Anna Bolena, Bellini's Il pirata and Ambroise Thomas's Hamlet), conducted by Nicola Rescigno, studio recording for EMI in stereo, September 1958
* Ponchielli, La Gioconda, conducted by Antonino Votto, studio recording for EMI in stereo, September 1959
* Puccini, Tosca, conducted by Carlo Felice Cillario, live performance, London, January 1964
* Bizet, Carmen, conducted by Georges Prêtre, studio recording for EMI in stereo, 1964. It is her only performance of the role, and her only performance of the complete opera; she never appeared in it onstage. The recording used the recitatives added after Bizet's death. Callas' performance caused critic Harold C. Schonberg to speculate in his book "The Glorious Ones" that Callas perhaps should have sung mezzo roles instead of simply soprano ones.
* Puccini, Tosca, conducted by Georges Prêtre, studio recording for EMI in stereo, December 1964. Although this is a brilliant recording, especially in dramatic sense, it is surely overshadowed by Callas' earlier, 1953 version.
Books:
* Ardoin, John, The Callas Legacy, Old Tappen, New Jersey: Scribner and Sons, 1991, ISBN 0-684-19306-X
* Edwards, Anne, Maria Callas, An Intimate Biography, New York: St. Martin's Press, 2001, ISBN 0-312-26986-2
* Gage, Nicholas, Greek Fire: The Story Of Maria Callas and Aristotle Onassis ISBN 0-446-61076-3
* Galatopoulos, Stelios, Maria Callas, Sacred Monster, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1998, ISBN 0-684-85985-8
* Lowe, David A. (ed.), Callas: As They Saw Her, New York: Ungar Publishing Company, 1986, ISBN 0-8044-5636-4
* Meneghini, Giovanni Battista, My Wife Maria Callas, New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1982, ISBN 0-374-21752-1
* Scott, Michael, Maria Meneghini Callas, Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1992, ISBN 1555531466
* Seletsky, Robert E., "The Performance Practice of Maria Callas: Interpretation and Instinct," The Opera Quarterly, 20/4 (2004), p. 587-602.
* Seletsky, Robert E., "Callas at EMI: Remastering and Perception"; "A Callas Recording Update"; "A Callas Recording Update...updated," The Opera Quarterly, 16/2 (2000), p. 240-255; 21/2 (2005), p. 387-391; 21/3, p. 545-546 (2005). (also available at www.Divinarecords.com)
* Stancioff, Nadia, Maria Callas Remembered: An Intimate Portrait of the Private Callas, New York: E. P. Dutton, 1987, ISBN 0-525-24565-0
* Stassinopoulos, Arianna, Maria Callas: The Woman Behind the Legend, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1981, ISBN 0-671-25583-5
