Chilean director Pablo Larraín has carved out a niche for himself creating portraits of iconic women on the edge of a nervous breakdown at significant moments in their lives. First there was Jackie ...

With Jane Clayson We talk with the director of a new documentary about the life of Maria Callas, to this day one of the most electrifying singers in opera. Gregor Benko, music historian. He saw ...

Opera singer Maria Callas' real-life relationships are depicted in the new Netflix biopic "Maria." Callas had a longtime affair with Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis. They continued seeing each ...

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"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." With her extraordinary vocal range, opera singer Maria Callas commanded the stage like few others in ...

Maria Callas seized fame as the voice of Tosca, Medea and Carmen, opera’s eternally doomed heroines. If opera still commands audiences a century from now, perhaps it will sing of Callas, a fighter who ...

Reporting from New York — In the late summer and fall of 1977, the world lost four of the most influential singers America had ever produced — Elvis Presley, Ethel Waters, Bing Crosby and Maria Callas ...

How fitting, then, that “Maria” begins like a gallery view of the mythic soprano’s storied history. We’re treated to glimpses of a life—career, fame and adoration—as it flits past our eyes. Callas’ ...