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 ...

In Maria, the new Netflix film starring Angelina Jolie as opera legend Maria Callas, the reclusive opera singer hallucinates that she is interviewed by a "handsome interrogator" — a journalist named ...

How do you capture someone as mythic as Maria Callas in a two-hour movie? That was the challenge facing screenwriter Steven Knight (“Spencer”), who reteams with director Pablo Larraín for the new ...

Larraín's third inside portrait of a 20th-century female icon feels more limited than "Jackie" or "Spencer," because it's more hemmed in by fate. The apartment, with its chandeliers hanging from high ...

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 ...

On the great soprano (1923–77) on the occasion of her centennial Editor’s Note: The below is an expansion of a piece published in the current issue of National Review. Maria Callas was born on ...

Warning: Contains SPOILERS for Maria! Pablo Larrain's Maria has finally been released, and here is what happened to Maria ...

"I didn’t want to do a disservice to this woman," Jolie said at the Venice Film Festival of portraying Maria Callas in Pablo Larraín's new movie. Entertainment Weekly's Oscars expert, 'RuPaul's Drag ...

The legendary – and controversial — soprano Maria Callas, who would have turned 100 on Dec. 2, continues to command attention. Of course opera fans remain enthralled, but Callas also appeals to many ...

When Maria Callas dazzles an audience into silence with her undulating soprano, one might expect the heavens to part and for an angel to beckon her home. There is an otherworldliness to the legendary ...

Maria Callas (1923-1977) recorded twenty-six complete operas and a dozen sets of aria recitals between hear first full cry 78s in 1949, and her final recording session in 1969, when her voice was in ...