To speak of Maria Callas is to recall one of the most important periods in the history of Italian Opera, from the end of World War II to the early 1960s, when generations of performers such as Tebaldi ...

Opera star Maria Callas died 30 years ago Sunday. But you'd hardly know she was gone, judging from the stream of CDs flowing from her record company. There's even a new 70-CD box set out this month to ...

Maria Callas as Rosina in Rossini's Il Barbieri di Siviglia, at Milan's La Scala theater in 1956. The legendary – and controversial — soprano Maria Callas, who would have turned 100 on Dec. 2, ...

San Antonio’s McNay Art Museum, Texas’s Modern-Art Pioneer Audio By Carbonatix On the great soprano (1923–77) on the occasion of her centennial Editor’s Note: The below is an expansion of a piece ...

Pablo Larraín’s “Maria” is a lush fantasia that stars Angelina Jolie as opera singer Maria Callas. We see the iconic diva in grand theaters like La Scala and in her favored Paris cafes, but the main ...

This story was written as part of the WTOP Book Report series authored by Terik King. Read more of that coverage. In the high-drama world of opera, where talent clashes with ambition and passion ...

In the opening moments of Pablo Larraín's film Maria, the titular Maria Callas (played by Angelina Jolie) has just died. In real life, Callas did in fact pass away in her Paris apartment, as the ...

In the student and art hub of Chippendale, Sydney, Chinese artists tap into long-held traditions of allegory, reproduction, and storytelling for an alchemic exhibition theme. Succeeding years and ...

Legendary opera singer Maria Callas had an extraordinary career, colored as much by supreme success as it was by terrible heartache. Yet despite her tumultuous private life, Callas's powerful soprano ...

Soprano Maria Callas, rehearsing for her title role in Medea at Covent Garden in London, in 1959. Opera star Maria Callas died 30 years ago Sunday. But you'd hardly know she was gone, judging from the ...