The star and filmmaker behind one of the festival season's instant hits walks IndieWire through their meticulous process, ...

Netflix's 2024 biopic Maria features many classical orchestrations and select opera pieces sung by Maria Callas and performed ...

“Ave Maria” from Verdi’s “Otello” provides a prayer at the film’s start. The melancholy “Vissi d’arte” from “Tosca” accompanies Callas’s final moments. “Opera,” he ...

Callas, known as “La Divina” (The Divine), was an American-born Greek soprano who rose to fame in the 1950s and is often ...

“Maria,” Pablo Larraín’s cinematic portrait of opera legend Maria Callas, arrives as the third of the director’s films centered on iconic women of the 20th century. And like the other ...

Director of photography Ed Lachman talks about finding the cinematic corollary for the grammar of opera in the Netflix Maria Callas biographical drama. In terms of the aesthetics, Lachman said the ...

Four former Phantoms of the Opera took over the Palladium Friday night, and the nearly full house could not have been happier ...

Larrain’s film is more about the acute loneliness of being Maria Callas, La divina - considered to be the greatest opera singer of her time ...

The movie starts off with Callas in black-and-white close-up singing “Ave Maria” from Verdi’s opera “Otello.” She’s clearly singing, as her face muscles and breathing demonstrate.