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 ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Maria is Maria Callas, but you won’t find too many high notes in Pablo Larrain’s biopic. This is the third of his films about ...

Biographer Lyndsy Spence, author of Cast a Diva: The Hidden Life of Maria Callas, says: “Maria Callas lived her life trying to meet the demands of the public, who were often unforgiving in their ...

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

When Angelina Jolie floated onto the red carpet at the Venice Film Festival last summer, a Cartier brooch pinned to her sleek black column dress by her eponymous brand Atelier Jolie, it was ...

and it stars Angelina Jolie as Maria Callas. (Pablo previously directed 2016's Jackie starring Natalie Portman as Jacqueline Kennedy and 2021's Spencer starring Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana.

The film is a creative imagining and psychological portrait of Maria Callas, set in Paris, September 1977, during the final week of Callas' life. Maria follows the soprano as she negotiates her ...

There’s a story that soprano Maria Callas, secluded in her Paris apartment in the months before dying of a heart attack at 53, could be found paging sadly through her clippings. "Why didn’t ...