When diva worship turns an artist into an icon, everyone ...

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.

One of the greatest opera stars in history, Maria Callas lived a life of high drama and high fashion, and her jewellery accessorised it all . Rising from modest beginnings as a Greek immigrant born in ...

Maria is the softer, more restrained film – less immediately striking, perhaps, but still deeply emotive. It invokes the last days of Maria Callas ... a kind of song deemed too florid ...

In this new film from Arena, a cast of musical experts and admirers uncover the truth about the Maria Callas myth and the gift of her extraordinary voice. Show more Known around the world for her ...

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" is a moving and impressive biographical drama about the life of the legendary opera singer Maria Callas, who became immortal in the music world with her unique voice and emotional intensity.

but it’s hinted that his marriage to JFK’s widow didn’t change his love for Maria Callas. Maria tells the pianist that she wants to sing a love song for Onassis who, though dead, comes to her bed ...

Angelina Jolie has opened up on her new role in Maria, playing famed opera singer Maria Callas, and has revealed how she was ...