"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." During the final years of Maria Callas’s life, the famed opera singer retreated to her Paris apartment.

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 ...

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 ...

"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 — ...

Pablo Larraín’s “Maria” is a lush fantasia that stars Angelina Jolie as opera singer Maria Callas. We see the iconic diva in grand theaters like La Scala and in her favored Paris cafes, but the main ...

Leonard Bernstein called her “The Bible of Opera.” Yves Saint Laurent once said she was the “Diva of Divas.” The critics gave her the nickname of “La Divina” or “The Divine One.” But in the new film ...

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 ...

One of the more animated objects in “Maria” is Maria Callas’s piano, moved from room to room by servants at the whim of the ex-opera star. Its journeys have no discernible purpose. It weighs a ton.

Fame, fortune and success: Everyone thinks that those three things go hand-in-hand. But as legendary opera singer Maria Callas discovered, great fame and great talent do not always equal great ...

You don’t have to love opera to love Maria Callas. She was bold but vulnerable, her life roiled by drama. Her voice reflected all the colors of paradise, as it was before Adam and Eve were kicked out.

Celebrities packed into a suite at the Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles for the W Magazine party on Saturday night. By Jacob Bernstein Angelina Jolie plays the opera star Maria Callas in a movie that ...

A voice from the past will fill the Music Hall at Fair Park this Halloween. The legendary soprano singer Maria Callas will appear once again on the Dallas stage where she made history nearly seven ...