Among the notable names in attendance at the funeral were royals, including Grace Kelly of Monaco and her daughter, Princess Caroline: Maria Callas's remains were cremated, and her ashes were ...

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 ...

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.

There’s a story that soprano Maria Callas, secluded in her Paris apartment ... like a handkerchief left behind by a loved one after a funeral. This is a portrait of the artist as a living ...

The equally astounding Angelina Jolie portrays the late, great soprano Maria Callas – one of the most talented opera singers of the 20th century. But Callas’s career is known for being as ...