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 ...

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 ...

The Chilean director of “Maria,” which stars Angelina Jolie as opera singer Maria Callas, is clearly a well-versed lover of cinema — but he says he wouldn’t actually consider himself a ...

As fitfully as Maria follows real life, Larraín and Jolie do give Callas one last glorious performance—no Kennedys in attendance.

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 ...

A few weeks before the world would get to see her play Maria Callas, the venerated soprano, Angelina Jolie was savoring her own night at the opera. On a visit to New York in November, Jolie and ...

It tells the story of the last days of opera singer Maria Callas, by any measure one of ... speak that she never dropped except when she got angry (when angry, she sounded just like she 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.

In Maria, Angelina Jolie takes on the role of renowned soprano, Maria Callas. Throughout the film, there are many closeups of Jolie-as-Maria performing, leading viewers to wonder: Is Angelina ...

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.