Theatre Tuscaloosa is performing "Master Class" this week, based on the life of opera diva Maria Callas, starring Ava ...

Singing was vital to Callas, and though Maria focuses on the fallout of her vocal decline rather than its causes, there are several theories, including but not limited to her rapid weight loss in ...

Ava Buchanan, a veteran actress with Theatre Tuscaloosa, stars as Maria Callas in Terrence ... (though some believe that without her earlier weight, she lost something of her supported voice ...

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I was devastated by Jenni Murray’s piece in last week’s Mail about her lifelong issues with food and weight ... performance in Maria, about the opera singer Maria Callas.

Maria, “La Divina,” Callas lived a life which could fill 100 and yet ... Instead, mounting health problems exacerbated by her continuous goal of extreme weight loss, among other things, led to her ...

v=du4L5ikk5Ms Unfortunately, Maria ... Where his vision of Callas does indeed come to life is in her imperious evocation by Jolie. Jolie is a performer of sufficient weight and charisma to ...

“Maria Callas carried the weight of her experiences ... “Opera meets the enormity of pain and loss. It’s something I’ve grown to appreciate as I get older,” she reflected.

Maria Callas was ... Apparently, Callas’s last days were like that — addled, frustrated, sad. She is desperate to regain her historic voice. How did she lose it, by the way?

In “Maria”, even a sweating Nazi officer in wartime Athens, for whom a callow Maria Callas is forced to sing, gawps at her talent. “A Complete Unknown” is up for eight Oscars.

At her considerable best, Maria Callas could lay down a performance which can’t be bettered. Others might do it just as well, differently – but not better. Over the course of a brief career, having ...

In this edition of arts24, Angelina Jolie learns to sing opera for her part as Maria Callas in Paris. The biopic looks at the final days in the life of one of the most iconic and controversial ...