When diva worship turns an artist into an icon, everyone ...

And, of course, Callas herself, singing “La Habanera” from Carmen in a demure floral gown ... as far as history records, and Maria shrewdly eschews inventing an encounter.

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 ...

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 ...

The vocal performances in the film include songs from Georges Bizet’s Carmen, Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca, and Vincenzo Bellini’s Norma. In Maria, which follows Callas’s final days in Paris in ...

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.

Kennedy and Maria Callas meet over lunch in Paris ... and sang two arias from Bizet's Carmen at the Madison Square Garden party held earlier. She was later presented with a Tiffany silver bowl ...

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Considered one of the most gifted performers of her generation, Maria Callas has continued to cast a spell over audiences, both young and old, long after her untimely death in 1977. Born on December ...