Maria Callas did indeed spend her final isolated days in Paris, and her struggle with her declining voice was something ...

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 ...

Along with the likes of Judy Garland, Maria Callas is in the pantheon of superstars whose magnetic stage personality and charisma continue to enchant audiences. And so the new Netflix biopic, ...

Maria ­Callas was only 45 when she grimly assessed her situation during an interview with the critic John Ardoin. She had played all her cards and lost every round, and ­although she would ...

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