In Maria, Angelina Jolie channels her own celebrity and understanding of fame, the crippling demands of beauty and age, and a ...

Robert Carsen’s abstract revival of Verdi’s opera feels like a work-in-progress of a dauntingly all-too-topical show ...

Jewellery played an important role in Callas’s turbulent life: not only did her pieces mark certain career milestones, they were in many ways talismans of the love she craved. Below, discover more of ...

In 'Maria', Pablo Larraín completes his trilogy of tragically glamorous women in his biopic about the famed opera singer ...

Biographer Lyndsy Spence, author of Cast a Diva: The Hidden Life of Maria Callas, says: “Maria Callas lived her life trying to meet the demands of the public, who were often unforgiving in their ...

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As in Jackie and Spencer, Maria offers a wide-open vista of its subject through an arrow-slit of a temporal window: in this case, the final week of Callas’s life. Voice weakened, stardom gone ...

and it stars Angelina Jolie as Maria Callas. (Pablo previously directed 2016's Jackie starring Natalie Portman as Jacqueline Kennedy and 2021's Spencer starring Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana.

The 40th Anniversary Show continues… Celebrate over 40 fabulous years of uproarious comedy and musical prowess with Britain’s greatest cabaret trio. Combining razor-sharp satire with matchless musical ...

“Of course, you don’t want to make a movie about Maria Callas without Maria Callas’s voice,” Larraín explains. “That would be ridiculous. So sometimes it’s 5 per cent. Sometimes it ...

Both Angelina Jolie (“Maria”) and Tilda Swinton (“The Room Next Door“) will be in attendance at the Beverly Hilton on Sunday night as they compete for the Golden Globe award for best ...