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

‘Maria’: Angelina Jolie on overcoming fear and the challenge of portraying Opera legend Maria Callas These harmonies continue to give us the chills. Welcome to MsMojo, and today we’re counting down ...

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 ...

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

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Biographer Lyndsy Spence, author of Cast a Diva: The Hidden Life of Maria Callas, says: “Maria Callas lived her life trying to meet the demands of the public, who were often unforgiving in their ...

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As in Jackie and Spencer, Maria offers a wide-open vista of its subject through an arrow-slit of a temporal window: in this case, the final week of Callas’s life. Voice weakened, stardom gone ...

and it stars Angelina Jolie as Maria Callas. (Pablo previously directed 2016's Jackie starring Natalie Portman as Jacqueline Kennedy and 2021's Spencer starring Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana.

“Of course, you don’t want to make a movie about Maria Callas without Maria Callas’s voice,” Larraín explains. “That would be ridiculous. So sometimes it’s 5 per cent. Sometimes it ...

Along with the likes of Judy Garland, Maria Callas is in the pantheon of superstars whose magnetic stage personality and charisma continue to enchant audiences. And so the new Netflix biopic, ...