The preparation involved training with real opera singers and ... Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca, and Vincenzo Bellini’s Norma. In Maria, which follows Callas’s final days in Paris in 1977, Jolie ...

Where the opera star Maria Callas differs from Princess Diana or ... Callas" has a tendency to be conflated with her ...

Jewellery played an important role in Callas’s turbulent life: not only did her pieces mark certain career milestones, they ...

Let me quote from my centennial piece: Many sopranos, when they sing “Vissi d’arte” (Tosca ... Carlo Maria Giulini said that Callas embodied the “trilogy” of opera: “words, music, ...

One of the greatest opera stars in history, Maria Callas lived a life of high drama and high fashion, and her jewellery ...

This film is a detective story: what was it that made Maria Callas lose her voice ... he was lucky enough to see Callas perform Tosca at the Royal Opera House in 1964. Although relatively late ...

Maria Callas had a storied career on the Royal Opera House stage. From making her Covent Garden debut in Norma in 1952 to performing her last ever opera to a packed London audience in Tosca in ...

The actress is starring in a new biopic, titled Maria, about opera singer Maria Callas. Two of Jolie's six ... One of her most famous performances was as Tosca, in Covent Garden, in 1964.

In 'Maria', Pablo Larraín completes his trilogy of tragically glamorous women in his biopic about the famed opera singer ...

Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larrain is known for his intimate, searing portraits of famous women. This time, he’s turned his ...

Angelina Jolie plays opera singer Maria Callas in a new biopic [Getty Images ... One of her most famous performances was as Tosca, in Covent Garden, in 1964. But vocal decline, possibly caused ...