Pablo Larraín completes his trilogy on 20th-century women with a portrait of the diva as delicate, perfect, and sweet as it is exasperatingly static. María Callas appears, surprises with her delicate ...

Angelina Jolie’s Maria Callas stares across Paris through oversized, ‘milk-bottle’ bottomed lenses that exaggerate her blackened pupils. The spectacles anchor us in the late 70s, at a time the soprano ...

A portrayal of the final days of Maria Callas, possibly the most iconic opera singer of the 20th century, Maria stars Angelina Jolie as the titular chanteuse, a role that has been considered one ...

c. Shakespeare with Van Doren Taiwan and America, &c. Our new ‘Gulf’ politics, &c. Maria Callas was born on December 2, 1923, meaning that her centennial was about a year ago. I wrote a piece ...

At her considerable best, Maria Callas could lay down a performance which can’t be bettered. Others might do it just as well, differently – but not better. Over the course of a brief career, having ...

Last year it was Amy Winehouse and Bob Marley. Up soon are a quartet of films about the Beatles (an impending Michael Jackson ...

Maria is a creative imagining and psychological portrait of Maria Callas, set in Paris, September 1977, during the final week of Callas' life. Maria follows the soprano as she negotiates her ...

There has, since Pablo Larraín’s study of Maria Callas premiered at Venice International Film Festival in August, been a critical cooling on the project. Does it not allow the great diva enough ...

Did she see herself in Callas? “You know, when somebody’s close to you, you don’t see the same things,” she says. “You probably all see similarities between myself and Maria Callas that ...