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.

The movie starts off with Callas in black-and-white close-up singing “Ave Maria” from Verdi’s opera “Otello.” She’s clearly singing, as her face muscles and breathing demonstrate.

But it doesn't stay there for long, instead cutting to a black-and-white closeup of the diva singing "Ave Maria (Desdemona)" from Verdi's "Otello." The voice clearly belongs to Callas, because you ...

the 49-year-old plays the celebrated Greek-American opera singer Maria Callas in the final years of her life. Callas died in 1977 at the age of 53. For several months, Jolie – who last appeared ...

Stephane Cardinale - Corbis/Corbis via Getty, Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Based on true accounts about Callas, Maria will tell the "tumultuous, beautiful and tragic story ...

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 ...