When Jackie Kennedy learned that her husband, Aristotle Onassis, was having an affair with Maria Callas, she did what she knew best – looked the other way. The claim was made by Kiki Feroudi ...

At her considerable best, Maria Callas could lay down a performance which can’t be bettered. Others might do it just as well, differently – but not better. Over the course of a brief career, having ...

The equally astounding Angelina Jolie portrays the late, great soprano Maria Callas – one of the most talented opera singers of the 20th century. But Callas’s career is known for being as ...

But this tragic legend of Maria Callas isn’t true: Callas was nobody’s victim. She was defiant, exacting - a woman who blazed a trail for female artists of today. But there was one thing that ...

She plays opera legend Maria Callas in Pablo Larrain's biopic Maria, which follows the star through the final week of her life — while also flashing back through her remarkable career.

The equally astounding Angelina Jolie portrays the late, great soprano Maria Callas – one of the most talented opera singers of the 20th century. But Callas’ career is known for being as brief ...

Note: This review originally appeared on Next Best Picture's website. Although Chilean director Pablo Larraín has covered several genres and stories with his films, he's particularly passionate ...

Start your Independent Premium subscription today. Almost 50 years on from her death, however, the public perception of Maria Callas all too often skews in one direction: the tortured female star.

Maria Callas died at the age of 53 from a heart attack, and her last few days are when Larraín chooses to tell her story. Though the final years of her life were filled with various health ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. If ever a star cried out to be immortalised on screen, surely it was the glamorous and tempestuous Maria ...

Maria ­Callas was only 45 when she grimly assessed her situation during an interview with the critic John Ardoin. She had played all her cards and lost every round, and ­although she would ...

Did she see herself in Callas? “You know, when somebody’s close to you, you don’t see the same things,” she says. “You probably all see similarities between myself and Maria Callas that ...