He spoke of Callas as the one who got away — or the one for whom he was too late. In 1974, when he was in his early 30s, he wanted Callas to appear in an opera he was leading: Verdi’s Macbeth.

There were several stretches during Lady Macbeth’s sleepwalking scene that got to me, mostly because the real Callas’ singing on the recording was so honest and revealing.

"Maria" introduces its namesake as a caged and molting songbird who shuffles around her mahogany apartment like a Quaalude-addicted Norma Desmond - albeit one who's a bit more loving toward the help.

As Callas didn’t have children, (which, in the logic of female biopics, makes her dying alone in her Parisian apartment inevitable) the only possible end is a lethal dose of addiction and self pity.

Maria, the Maria Callas biopic-of-sorts starring Angelina Jolie, is directed by Pablo Larraín and written by Steven Knight.

Jackie Kennedy at a 1965 performance by Maria Callas at the Metropolitan Opera. The former First Lady is accompanied by the opera’s then general manager, Rudolph Bing.

In “Maria Callas: An Intimate Biography,” by Anne Edwards, the director Franco Zeffirelli (who would go on to work with Callas) recalled “this overweight Greek lady, peeping out from behind ...

Angelina Jolie’s new Netflix movie, Maria—which began streaming today—marks the third based-on-a-true-story movie from director Pablo Larraín about a famous, tragic woman. First was Jackie ...

Yet “Maria” is a bit of a slog, even for an opera lover (like me). Callas here is at the end of her life, and she is not well. She lives in Paris with her long-suffering butler (Pierfrancesco ...

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 ...

Angelina Jolie’s performance sings in ‘Maria,’ but the film still falls flat Her great diva vibes aren’t enough to save this melodramatic biopic of opera star Maria Callas, which comes to ...