Joseph Kerman is a noted critic and UC Berkeley music professor emeritus. He is the author of such books as Opera as Drama, Write All These Down, and Contemplating Music.
Editor’s note: Opera and the Morbidity of Music, the collected commentaries for The New York Review of Books by noted critic and UC Berkeley music professor emeritus Joseph Kerman, will be published next month. This appreciation appeared in The Review in 1981, four years after the death of Maria Callas.
