centers on Maria Callas, an opera soprano, played by Angelina Jolie. For his Treat, Larraín recounts childhood visits to the opera house with his mother where he saw Giacomo Puccini’s Madama Butterfly ...

Angelina Jolie plays the opera star Maria Callas in a movie that can ... in one case performing “Madama Butterfly” in the pouring rain. There’s no lack of effort here.

I think I know more about music than movies,' says the Chilean director of the film starring Angelina Jolie as opera singer ...

Maria Callas was born in New York City on December ... gave three performances as Cio-Cio-San in Madama Butterfly. While she was initially only booked for two dates, they were so successful ...

“Casta diva” performed by Maria Callas – 10:00 ... “Coro a bocca chiusa (Humming Chorus)” from Puccini’s Madama Butterfly conducted by Peter Illenyi – 56:00: This song is performed ...

Famed singer Maria Callas gets the Hollywood biopic treatment in Pablo Larraín's new film "Maria," which stars Angelina Jolie as the opera legend. The movie chronicles the last days of the ...

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 ...

Along with the likes of Judy Garland, Maria Callas is in the pantheon of superstars whose magnetic stage personality and charisma continue to enchant audiences. And so the new Netflix biopic, ...

Maria Callas (1923-1977) is often hailed as one of the greatest sopranos of the 20th century. She’s best known for her performances in the operas Medea, Tosca and La Traviata, and when TIME put ...

The things that made Callas Callas. Compiled by Louis Lucero II Nearly half a century after her quiet death in a Paris apartment, Maria Callas continues to exert a hold on our imagination.

Angelina Jolie deserves some flowers for her steady performance as Maria Callas in the biopic “Maria,” even if the movie doesn’t completely do the opera legend justice. “Maria” focuses ...