Unlike the way this issue was portrayed onstage in Terrence McNally’s play, “Master Class,” Maria Callas’ voice at this time in her life wasn’t an awful rasp. She sounded like herself ...

Terrence McNally's play about Maria Callas (played by Tony and Emmy Award winner Tyne Daly) takes us to one of her famous master classes, where, late in her own career, she dares the next ...

Start your Independent Premium subscription today. Almost 50 years on from her death, however, the public perception of Maria Callas all too often skews in one direction: the tortured female star.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. If ever a star cried out to be immortalised on screen, surely it was the glamorous and tempestuous Maria ...

In Maria, Jolie takes on the challenge of portraying opera legend Maria Callas, balancing the diva ... I had seven months of singing class, Italian class, and opera class. Then, throughout ...

The equally astounding Angelina Jolie portrays the late, great soprano Maria Callas – one of the most talented opera singers of the 20th century. But Callas’s career is known for being as ...