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 fighter who ...

Chilean director Pablo Larraín has carved out a niche for himself creating portraits of iconic women on the edge of a nervous breakdown at significant moments in their lives. First there was Jackie ...

NEW YORK — When Maria Callas appeared onstage at the Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Center on Sunday night, she looked a little pale, a little spectral. This was understandable, perhaps: She has been ...

Courted by Hollywood for decades to make a film out of the Maria Callas legend, Franco Zeffirelli has finally directed (with Euro coin) a very personal and eccentric "what if" story, imagining the ...

With Jane Clayson We talk with the director of a new documentary about the life of Maria Callas, to this day one of the most electrifying singers in opera. Gregor Benko, music historian. He saw ...

This is FRESH AIR. Maria Callas is one of the most recorded opera singers of all time, though there are relatively few films or videos of her compared to the number of her recordings. But that's been ...

Tom Volf's documentary about the turbulent life and art of opera legend Maria Callas allows the singer herself to straighten out the record. “Maria by Callas,” an adoring profile of the Greek-American ...

With Jane Clayson We talk with the director of a new documentary about the life of Maria Callas, to this day one of the most electrifying singers in opera. Gregor Benko, music historian. He saw ...