“I took a few days when I realised it was Maria Callas. Because that’s a big ... One can’t imagine a similar film about Joan Sutherland or Christa Ludwig. Can we identify the distinguishing ...

Famous singers: June Anderson; Maria Callas; Edita Gruberova; Sumi Jo; Nellie Melba; Adelina Patti; Beverly Sills; Dame Joan Sutherland. Castrati were male singers whose unbroken voices were ...

Global fascination around the great soprano continues to this day, with a new biopic Maria starring Angelina Jolie and directed ... Australian soprano Joan Sutherland was one of the most admired and ...

Along with the likes of Judy Garland, Maria Callas is in the pantheon of superstars whose magnetic stage personality and charisma continue to enchant audiences. And so the new Netflix biopic, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hollywood sensation Angelina Jolie told Classic FM about how ‘freeing’ it felt to undergo vocal training ahead of portraying opera star Maria Callas in Pablo Larraín’s new biopic. Few stars have ...

"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 ...

In Maria, Jolie takes on the challenge of portraying opera legend Maria Callas, balancing the diva’s commanding stage presence with the complexities of her private life. To embody Callas ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...