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

After Maria Callas’ revolutionary interpretations in 1952 and ... even without the added burden of looming shadows. In the iconic aria Casta Diva, she appeared somewhat hesitant, perhaps weighed down ...

Cracked an American in the audience: “After this Casta Diva, they may just cast a diva into the Tiber.” Maria Callas’ husband, wealthy retired Manufacturer Giovanni Battista Meneghini ...

Pablo Larraín ’s Maria completes his trilogy of films about famous and charismatic women at critical moments in their lives, the others being Jackie Kennedy (Jackie, 2016) and Princess Diana (Spencer, ...

Angelina Jolie has yet to win a significant accolade for playing Maria Callas in “Maria.” As fine as she is as the “Casta Diva” opera singer, Jolie could be cast aside.

Maria Callas’ ethereal statue has been adorning the entrance of the famous Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Italy. Image: Maria Callas in 1958. Credit: CBS Television / Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain ...

“Casta diva” performed by Maria Callas – 10:00: Maria sings this song to her maid, Bruna, in the kitchen of her home. The song also carries into a flashback of Maria performing it live in ...

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 Callas, years before, singing the same aria before a packed opera ...

Angelina Jolie confessed she was afraid of not being able to “live up” to Maria Callas’s legend in her new biopic about the great diva’s extraordinary yet tragic life that premiered ...

I really came to care for her, so I didn’t want to do a disservice to this woman.” Callas is often referred to as the greatest opera ‘diva’, a loaded word that carries some negative connotations.

Angelina Jolie confessed she was afraid of not being able to "live up" to Maria Callas' legend in her new biopic about the great diva's extraordinary yet tragic life that premiered at the Venice ...