“Maria,” despite being occasionally slow ... In an early scene, Callas sings “Casta Diva” for her housemaid, and Larraín cuts back and forth from the two of them in the kitchen to ...

Cracked an American in the audience: “After this Casta Diva, they may just cast a diva into the Tiber.” Maria Callas’ husband, wealthy retired Manufacturer Giovanni Battista Meneghini ...

As the director himself commented at the film's presentation in Venice, María Callas spent her entire life singing operas ...

Theatre Tuscaloosa is performing "Master Class" this week, based on the life of opera diva Maria Callas, starring Ava ...

it was perhaps only a matter of time before Larrain came around to a proto-diva who not only ticked the “operatic” box but sang from it too. Maria ­Callas’s era-defining soprano burnt ...

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 ...

a box-set celebrating the great diva's life and music has been produced, adding to a great legacy of works by the great soprano both on and off-stage. The 30th anniversary of the death of Maria Callas ...

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).

There has, since Pablo Larraín’s study of Maria Callas premiered at Venice International Film Festival in August, been a critical cooling on the project. Does it not allow the great diva enough ...

Maria even chides him, saying “you should be more ... Even your Ennio Morricones or Hans Zimmers are no match for Verdi, Puccini and Bellini, and Callas singing Bellini’s "Casta Diva" or Puccini’s "O ...

If it takes a diva to play one, Theatre Tuscaloosa seemed to know what it was doing, casting Ava Buchanan as Maria Callas, performing Terrence McNally's "Master Class" this week. Of course it's ...