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 ...

Maria Callas seized fame as the voice of Tosca, Medea and Carmen, opera’s eternally doomed heroines. If opera still commands audiences a century from now, perhaps it will sing of Callas, a fighter who ...

NEW YORK — When Maria Callas appeared onstage at the Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Center on Sunday night, she looked a little pale, a little spectral. This was understandable, perhaps: She has been ...

Famed singer Maria Callas gets the Hollywood biopic treatment in Pablo Larraín's new film "Maria," which stars Angelina Jolie ...

Director Franco Zeffirelli can’t quite let go of Maria Callas, and he’s got more claim than the average fan. Zeffirelli worked with the famous opera diva and was a longtime friend. Callas died in 1977 ...

This is FRESH AIR. Maria Callas is one of the most recorded opera singers of all time, though there are relatively few films or videos of her compared to the number of her recordings. But that's been ...

With Jane Clayson We talk with the director of a new documentary about the life of Maria Callas, to this day one of the most electrifying singers in opera. Gregor Benko, music historian. He saw ...

Tom Volf's documentary about the turbulent life and art of opera legend Maria Callas allows the singer herself to straighten out the record. “Maria by Callas,” an adoring profile of the Greek-American ...