The ending of Netflix's 2024 biopic Maria displays Maria Callas's emotional swan song, portrayed by Academy Award-winner Angelina Jolie. Jolie, best known for her roles in films such as Maleficent ...

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

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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.