Imogene is, IMO, one of Callas’s great roles, up there with Norma, Violetta and Medea. By the time she did this 1959 recording &#8212; live in concert in New York -- <b>her</b> voice could no longer do justice to the more stratospheric regions of the role. But the intensity and commitment of <b>her</b> performance are evident, as is <b>her</b> understanding of the desperation and madness in Bellini's creation. Unlike Leonora in La Forza del Destino, another one of Callas's great "torn" characters who resigns herself ...