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

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 ...

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

Maria Callas died in 1977 ... as if this were the city's tribute to the diva who defined Puccini's Violetta. And then, just as suddenly, they disappear and she is alone in the street save for ...

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 ...

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.

"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 ...