Callas, in order to wrench forth the desperation of Lady Macbeth, Medea, or Madama Butterfly’s Cio-Cio San, was deliberate in every breath and syllable, too. Angelina Jolie in the Maria Callas ...

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Near the end of “Maria,” 53-year-old Maria Callas, the opera diva stunningly played by Angelina Jolie, attempts to make it through the challenging mad scene from “Anna Bolena” in an empty ...

Maria Callas' voice famously began to decline during the second half of her career, with this having a major impact on her ...

Where the opera star Maria Callas differs from Princess Diana or First Lady Jackie Kennedy in Larraín's conception is that she desperately wants to be on (or return to) the public stage; her most ...

As Maria Callas, Angelina Jolie had to find her voice to lose it. In ‘Maria,’ the actress takes on La Divina for the final act of director Pablo Larraín’s trilogy on iconic 20th-century women.

For Callas, Larraín wanted an actress who could create “our Maria,” he said — not simply imitate her. He called Jolie, who had reached out after seeing his earlier work.

Angelina Jolie deserves some flowers for her steady performance as Maria Callas in the biopic “Maria,” even if the movie doesn’t completely do the opera legend justice. “Maria” (★★½ ...

‘Maria’ Review: Angelina Jolie Is Commanding as Maria Callas in Pablo Larraín’s Lavish but Overly Fatalistic Drama Larraín's third inside portrait of a 20th-century female icon feels more ...

EXCLUSIVE: Angelina Jolie says that roles such as her portrayal of Maria Callas — arguably the greatest prima donna assoluta soprano of all time — in director Pablo Larraín‘s Maria, come ...

I'm not at all convinced by Terrence McNally's stage play Master Class, based on the legendary opera singer Maria Callas. On ...

The Odeon of Herod Atticus recently opened the 70th season of the annual Athens Epidaurus Festival, a cherished annual ...