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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

Absent from the Milan house for half a century, this performance surrenders to the music of Bellini’s tragic masterpiece ...

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