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 ...

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 .

Read more: LA fires: Why fast-moving wildfires and those started by human activities are more destructive and harder to contain Nights are warming faster than days globally, and dusk has brought ...

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 ...

I’ve walked the streets of LA, its history as vivid as its fires. Now, the city burns, and its dreams smoulder in the ash Joan Didion, that most perceptive observer of Los Angeles life ...

Investigators in Los Angeles are looking into possible causes of the LA wildfires. A beachfront property destroyed by the Palisades Fire is seen along Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, California ...

NOAA has declared that a La Niña is underway. This cool weather event is likely to be shorter and weaker than usual, but will still affect global weather and climate. When you purchase through ...