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 ...

and it stars Angelina Jolie as Maria Callas. (Pablo previously directed 2016's Jackie starring Natalie Portman as Jacqueline Kennedy and 2021's Spencer starring Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana.

It tells the story of the last days of opera singer Maria Callas, by any measure one of ... speak that she never dropped except when she got angry (when angry, she sounded just like she was ...