Without that, none of this could happen.” When the younger Callas sings songs like “Ave Maria” and “E che? Io son Medea” in the film, the voice is all recordings from the woman herself.

When it came time for the cameras to roll, “Ave Maria” was one of the first scenes they shot. Jolie recalls feeling “terrified. I was extremely nervous and extremely insecure.” It was a ...

Maria Dolores Caruso (née Cabrera), 77, passed away unexpectedly on Sunday, December 8, 2024, at St. Joseph Hospital in Nashua, NH. She was born on April 26, 1948, in Havana, Cuba, the daughter of the ...

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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 ...

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Angelina Jolie plays the opera star Maria Callas in a movie that can’t figure her out. By Alissa Wilkinson When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site ...

Spoiler alert! We're disclosing major plot details about the movie “Maria” (streaming now on Netflix). How do you capture someone as mythic as Maria Callas in a two-hour movie? That was the ...

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 ...

“The film isn’t a biography about one of the world’s greatest opera singers,” says cinematographer Edward Lachman about Pablo Larraín’s rousing drama “Maria,” starring Angelina Jolie.

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.