But the explosive power of the biopic that is based on the final seven days in the life of opera legend Maria Callas is the selection of Academy Award-winner Angelina Jolie. It is as if all the ...

Terrence McNally's play about Maria Callas (played by Tony and Emmy Award winner Tyne Daly) takes us to one of her famous master classes, where, late in her own career, she dares the next ...

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.

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 ...

"Maria," the Angelina Jolie magical-realist ... the courtesan Violetta in Verdi's "La Traviata"; and attend a master class led by Callas at the Julliard School in New York. The floor below ...