Maria Callas was born on December 2, 1923 — so the world is marking her centennial. “The world”? Well, pockets of it. The classical-music world, certainly, and the opera world, more ...

What was Maria Callas’s cause of death? Maria Callas’s official cause of death was a heart attack. But the movie Maria posits this heart attack was the result of drug abuse. Perhaps the ...

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 ...