A violent and crass triple stab of brass killed the gaiety. A man in black marched through the pews. As light licked his ...

Let me quote from my centennial piece: Many sopranos, when they sing “Vissi d’arte” (Tosca ... Carlo Maria Giulini said that Callas embodied the “trilogy” of opera: “words, music, ...

One of the greatest opera stars in history, Maria Callas lived a life of high drama and high fashion, and her jewellery ...

Maria Callas did indeed spend her final isolated days in Paris, and her struggle with her declining voice was something ...

Jewellery played an important role in Callas’s turbulent life: not only did her pieces mark certain career milestones, they were in many ways talismans of the love she craved. Below, discover more of ...

Last year it was Amy Winehouse and Bob Marley. Up soon are a quartet of films about the Beatles (an impending Michael Jackson ...

"There is no life away from the stage," Maria says. "The stage is in my mind." Fleeting musical sequences catch Callas at the height of her power, exaltation and fame, while others — like a rain ...

Maria Callas had a storied career on the Royal Opera House stage. From making her Covent Garden debut in Norma in 1952 to performing her last ever opera to a packed London audience in Tosca in ...

Along with the likes of Judy Garland, Maria ... to rival Callas, suffered similarly challenging losses and managed to adapted to them by becoming the doyenne of the Philadelphia Opera.

Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larrain is known for his intimate, searing portraits of famous women. This time, he’s turned his ...