“Maria,” despite being occasionally slow ... In an early scene, Callas sings “Casta Diva” for her housemaid, and Larraín cuts back and forth from the two of them in the kitchen to ...

“Maria” opens with a whirlwind edit of the highlights of Callas’s life as seen through the eyes of the paparazzi, with Jolie singing “Casta Diva” in Paris in her red silk wrap, accepting ...

Details about Callas' life have been explored in the biography Cast a Diva: The Hidden Life of Maria Callas, by Lyndsy Spence, which was excerpted in an April 2021 article from The Guardian.