According to Blanche Thebom, her replacement as Adalgisa, Barbieri had to return to Italy after the prima as she discovered she needed some kind of stomach operation and was also pregnant. 


She returned to the Met in 1956 to Adalgisa with Callas. 


Mezzomaniac



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