Following is an overview of some of Callas’s career highlights at La Scala. “Aida” (Verdi): April 12, 1950. Callas’s very first performance onstage at La Scala was as a substitute for the ...

I f any soprano is custom-built for the role of Floria Tosca, it is Maria Meneghini Callas. From her first entrance at Manhattan’s Metropolitan Opera last week, she made the Puccini heroine a ...

Maria Callas’ life and work, like the art of opera itself, ... Callas shrieked a sustained high E-flat for several seconds during the Triumphal Scene of “Aida,” bringing down the house.

Angelina Jolie stars in "Maria," a dramatic portrait of 20th-century opera star Maria Callas directed by Pablo Larraín. ... who recently sang the role of Ramfis in “Aida” with Boston Lyric Opera.

The Pablo Larraín feature stars Jolie as late Greek-American soprano singer, Maria Callas. ... she played title roles in both "Porgy and Bess" and "Aida." If a success, "Maria" ...