Casta Diva is Niall Morris's new hit show, honouring the legacy of the great opera diva Maria Callas. It stars the sensational Irish soprano Mairead Buicke as Maria Callas, fresh from her English ...

Before I saw “Maria By Callas,” I knew only that Maria Callas was once the definition of diva, in both the positive and negative senses of the word: a stunning operatic singer unmatched by any other ...

Deadline film critic Stephanie Bunbury described Jolie, 49, as "an almost magical match for the real diva," in a review of the film. "The actor’s commitment to this creation is obvious at every turn," ...

This story was written as part of the WTOP Book Report series authored by Terik King. Read more of that coverage. In the high-drama world of opera, where talent clashes with ambition and passion ...

As a general rule, geniuses are misunderstood, even vilified. This phenomenon was certainly true of soprano Maria Callas, whose supernova of a career—barely a decade on the international level—is now ...

"I've re-learned that word through Maria, and I have a new relationship to it," Jolie said at the Venice Film Festival Pablo Larraín Angelina Jolie learned a lot from playing singer Maria Callas — ...

ATHENS, Oct 25 (Reuters) - From a sample of her hair to a blue velvet dress she wore after the memorable 1955 performance of Verdi's La Traviata in Milan's La Scala, visitors to Athens can now marvel ...

Almost everything about Maria Callas remains an open question: From her date of birth at Flower Fifth Avenue Hospital in New York (was it Dec. 2 or Dec. 4, 1923?) to the cause of her death, at only 53 ...

Her fans, and they are many, call her “La Divina,” the divine one, and “Maria By Callas” shows the reasons why. Closer to a deity than a singer to her devotees, Maria Callas was an extraordinary opera ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published December 6. 2018. We’re bringing it back because of renewed interest in the opera great, Maria Callas, sparked by the new biopic “Maria” starring ...