DIVA Definition & Meaning
She was also beamed to prime-time TV audiences, such as her 1956 appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show,where she sang Vissi d’arte (I lived for art), an aria from Giacomo Puccini’s 1899 opera Tosca. The image of Callas as an archetypal diva, and the notion that the goddess-star should suffer for her art, is loaded; …

