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 ...

Maria ­Callas was only 45 when she grimly assessed her situation during an interview with the critic John Ardoin. She had played all her cards and lost every round, and ­although she would ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — What began as a childhood hobby more than six decades ago has led to what might be Africa's largest butterfly collection in a suburb of Kenya's capital.

Maria Callas was singing Tosca at Covent Garden. It was, he recalls having listened back to a snatch of it 60 years on, life-changing. Only one problem, sniffs a musicologist in an ivory tower.

Maria Callas’ ethereal statue has been adorning the entrance of the famous Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Italy. Image: Maria Callas in 1958. Credit: CBS Television / Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain ...

Jolie’s study of Callas’ operatic technique pays off in the moments when Maria, who died in her fifties and went through periods of non-singing, senses her voice and heart failing. It is here ...

Congratulations, you made it. Various apocalyptic moments of 2024 cast doubt on whether we would, to borrow the Hollywood worker mantra, “survive till ’25.” But here we are, closing out a ...

When Maria Lawton was six years old her family emigrated to the United States from the island of Sao Miguel in the Azores, a stunning archipelago in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Maria ...

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