Decades after the legendary prima donna left the scene forever, filmmaker Tom Volf fell in love with Maria Callas. He traveled the globe to uncover new material and lost archives on her life and work, with the collaboration of Nadia Stancioff, Callas's longtime best friend. These documents chronicle the dramatic story of an unparalleled opera superstar, invoking the voice of the singer herself. Maria Callas: In Her Own Words is the definitive, unique product of countless hours of research, offering the diva's own perspective on her passion for performance, and celebrating the singer praised by iconic composer Leonard Bernstein as "the Bible of opera.