"And I'm someone who loved Maria Callas — I really did ... a love and respect for opera and opera singers and that world and those composers and the arias are so beautiful," Jolie said.

In the film, her voice is melded with Callas’ own, so the arias rise from her speaking ... you think you’ve done a movie about Maria Callas, but Maria Callas is opera. It was her great love ...

Theatre Tuscaloosa is performing "Master Class" this week, based on the life of opera diva Maria Callas, starring Ava ...

Jolie was unfamiliar with opera before making Maria, but Larraín was keen to ensure that the singing in the film was a combination of both her and Callas’ vocals, much of which was achieved ...

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 ...

Pablo also reveals the secrets of bringing Maria Callas alive through Angelina's singing. Matthew also explores how films have turned to their natural predecessor, opera, for inspiration.

The conductor Carlo Maria Giulini said that Callas embodied the “trilogy” of opera: “words, music, and action.” I could go on, and did in that piece. I accept Pablo Larraín’s Maria on ...

A landmark moment in modern opera: Maria Callas performing Tosca at Covent Garden's Royal Opera House in 1964. Only the second act of the work was recorded, presented here in a restored version.

There has, since Pablo Larraín’s study of Maria Callas premiered at ... had the spiritual enormousness of Jolie’s Callas. Who would blame the opera singer for turning inward as the voice ...

Considered one of the most gifted performers of her generation, Maria Callas has continued to cast a spell over audiences, both young and old, long after her untimely death in 1977. Born on December ...

Ava Buchanan, a veteran actress with Theatre Tuscaloosa, stars as Maria ... some sung opera, though not a musical, nor opera ― on the 2024-2025 season, she bought books about Callas' life ...