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

Chilean director Pablo Larraín concludes his thematic trilogy of 20th century biopics of famous women – after ‘Jackie’ and ‘Spencer’ – with this soft, restrained drama ...

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 ...

Angelina Jolie, as Callas, combined live singing with lip-syncing to original recordings – both were mostly unconvincing despite seven months of vocal training (that’s 5 minutes in opera terms).

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

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 ...

Maria is Maria Callas, but you won’t find too many high ... Jolie’s Callas has exulted in playing the diva for most of her life, yet she’s all too aware of the fragility and falseness ...

But it never filled the void, the split between her outer persona as an operatic diva and her inner sense of being a flawed woman. Maria Callas shakes hands with the audience after her concert at ...

Read more: Who was Maria Callas, and what made her the world’s greatest opera diva? Now the subject of a biopic, the monumental talent who earned the nickname ‘La Divina’ lives on through her music, ...

The director, Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larrain, is interested in famous women who find themselves misunderstood. His previous films include Jackie (2016) about Jacqueline Kennedy (who became Onassis’s ...

In Maria, Angelina Jolie channels her own celebrity and understanding of fame, the crippling demands of beauty and age, and a ...

It invokes the last days of Maria Callas, “La Divina” of opera, as played by Angelina Jolie. She was striking in her beauty and formidable on stage, able to command her passions like a ...