Dominique Meyer, the French director of Milan's opera, is due to step down in early March. He will be replaced by an Italian, as has been the case in many of the country's cultural institutions since ...

Jewellery played an important role in Callas’s turbulent life: not only did her pieces mark certain career milestones, they ...

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 .

Angelina Jolie, as Callas, combined live singing with lip-syncing to original recordings – both were mostly unconvincing despite seven months of vocal training (that’s 5 minutes in opera terms).

The original dress won by Callas at La Scala provided the spark for Erdem’s Maria Callas inspired AW24/25 runway collection. Cantini Parrini meticulously recreated the dress Callas wore at The ...

The Met in New York and La Scala in Milan. Callas's final operatic performance took place at Covent Garden in 1965 when she was 41 but she continued to work conducting master classes at Juilliard ...

"She's the jewel, and I had to create the jewelry box." The "jewel" for "Maria" production designer Guy Hendrix Dyas was Angelina Jolie who embodies the famed opera soprano Maria Callas in "Maria ...

Callas was world-famous, appearing at all the great opera houses including Covent Garden, La Scala and the Met. But controversy also began to haunt her as the image of the “difficult” female ...

Conte Johnson discloses that while preparing the role, she listened most to the 1957 Callas recording at La Scala: “Oh my gosh. I mean, I just died for it. So gorgeous.” The lead soprano gets ...