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 ...

Theatre Tuscaloosa is performing "Master Class" this week, based on the life of opera diva Maria Callas, starring Ava ...

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).

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

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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 .

Maria Callas sings "Casta Diva" (Bellini ... His operatic career spanned from 1951 to 1976, and over those 25 years he became a legend of La Scala in Milan as well as New York’s Metropolitan Opera.

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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 ...

At her considerable best, Maria Callas could lay down a performance which can’t be ... means (in the memorable and difficult-to-stage climax of the verismo potboiler La Wally, the heroine flings ...

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