A steel statue of legendary soprano Maria Callas now permanently graces the Opera Theater of Rome in Italy, immortalizing the ...

A lot of people think they’re smart, but Jeopardy‘s the great leveler, able to put even the most puffed-up intellectual in ...

Angela Gheorghiu has been Covent Garden's reigning diva ever since her 1994 Traviata ... Forty-year-old memories of Maria Callas in the role have been erased: "Now everybody accepts me as Tosca." ...

Norma’s aria “Casta diva” came to represent the entire bel canto tradition, and even shorthand for opera overall. You can hear Maria Callas sing a sliver of it in a current TV commercial for ...

Maria even chides him, saying “you should be more ... Even your Ennio Morricones or Hans Zimmers are no match for Verdi, Puccini and Bellini, and Callas singing Bellini’s "Casta Diva" or Puccini’s "O ...

Some quick stats: Over the past 20 years, the winner of the Globe for motion picture – drama has gone on to capture the Oscar for Best Picture just six times. Musical or comedy? Only twice.

After a lifetime of pleasing others, Maria has decided to take back her voice. Amid rumors of a potential comeback, she goes to rehearsals where she tries to channel La Callas, the diva who ruled ...

Maria Callas’ ethereal statue has been adorning the entrance ... Another intriguing detail: on her left hand, the Greek soprano holds the fathogram of the aria “Casta Diva,” the famous soprano prayer ...

Well, as someone who has spent the last five years living with Maria Callas’ life and story while I wrote my novel Diva, I would say that the reasons were pretty obvious. Jackie Bouvier and ...

The new biopic of Maria Callas follows the takedowns of fictional conductor Lydia Tár and larger-than-life Leonard Bernstein with a dramatization of the most compelling singer I’ve ever ...

How do you capture someone as mythic as Maria Callas in a two-hour movie? That was the challenge facing screenwriter Steven Knight (“Spencer”), who reteams with director Pablo Larraín for the ...

WARNING: SPOILERS ahead for Maria. Netflix's 2024 biopic Maria features many classical orchestrations and select opera pieces ...