Leonard Bernstein called her “The Bible of Opera.” Yves Saint Laurent once said she was the “Diva of Divas.” The critics gave her the nickname of “La Divina” or “The Divine One.” But in the new film ...

"I've re-learned that word through Maria, and I have a new relationship to it," Jolie said at the Venice Film Festival Pablo Larraín Angelina Jolie learned a lot from playing singer Maria Callas — ...

It seems only natural that the first production staged at 825 Arts, a 1915 silent-film theater in St. Paul that reopened this month as a modern theater venue, would be “Divas & Drag” — and Monday, ...

She was famous for her performances in Madame Butterfly. But she was also my lovely neighbour in Wellington Village who died ...

Nearly 47 years after her death, one of opera's greatest stars, Greek soprano Maria Callas, is again taking centre stage at the Venice Film Festival played by Angelina Jolie in a new biopic. The ...

One of the more animated objects in “Maria” is Maria Callas’s piano, moved from room to room by servants at the whim of the ex-opera star. Its journeys have no discernible purpose. It weighs a ton.

Attending the opera is a little like throwing a dinner party. There are so many little details to worry about -- what to wear, where to sit, what to say -- that it's easy to lose track of why you're ...

For nearly a decade, those two warring soprano queens, Maria Meneghini Callas and Renata Tebaldi, have dominated the world of European (and U.S.) opera, leaving other postwar singers to peep about to ...

Angelina Jolie learned a lot from playing singer Maria Callas — including lessons from the late opera legend that took her by surprise. Ahead of the premiere of her movie Maria at the 81st Venice Film ...