Diva by Daisy Goodwin review – a novelisation of Maria Callas and Aristotle Onassis’s tumultuous affair
The biggest myth about Maria Callas? She was no tragic icon
February 2024
Dramatic dresses: the Saltburn effect hits London fashion week
Erdem and Simone Rocha shows saw outfits that could have come from Elspeth Catton’s wardrobe
December 2023
Maria Callas’s hologram concert: ersatz simulacrum of a dead diva is weird and depressing
The legendary soprano was celebrated for her emotional connection. This moribund gimmick intended to bring her back – but in fact took her further away
November 2023
Enduring greatness: five essential Maria Callas recordings on her centenary
La dolce vita? Maria Callas, the life of a diva – in pictures
‘They’ll see she was extraordinary’: Callas centenary inspires new generation to find the real Maria
7 Deaths of Maria Callas review – Marina Abramović dreams up a diva’s greatest hits
October 2022
Angelina Jolie to play Maria Callas in Spencer director’s next biopic
The Oscar-winner will play the opera singer in a film that explores the ‘tumultuous, beautiful, and tragic’ story of her life
April 2022
Maria Callas: Letters and Memoirs review – Monica Bellucci’s homage to a superstar
The Italian actor delivers an elegant but eccentric show that can’t quite decide who it’s for: opera aficionados or initiates
March 2022
My unforgettable gig
Tina Arena’s unforgettable gig: Maria Callas looked over me as I stepped on to the ancient Greek amphitheatre
Monica Bellucci: ‘If your work is just about beauty, you won’t last five minutes’
October 2021
Gandhi in heels? Maria Callas statue hits the wrong note
Critics compare figure of famous soprano erected in Greek capital to an Oscar statuette
April 2021
Drugged, sexually abused, swindled… Maria Callas’s tormented life revealed
Unpublished letters detail famed soprano’s painful relationships with husband, mother and Aristotle Onassis
February 2020
Robert Ponsonby and Maria Callas in Edinburgh
Letter: Arthur Summerfield hoped to catch Maria Callas at the Edinburgh festival in 1957, but she was catching a plane home
June 2019
'It's ghost slavery': the troubling world of pop holograms
Dead stars from Whitney Houston to Maria Callas are going on tour again. As Miley Cyrus explores the issue in a new Black Mirror, we uncover the greatest identity crisis in music today
May 2019
Back to life, back to virtual reality as music stars return to stage as holograms
As a Whitney Houston 3D tour is announced, the race is on to make hi-tech concerts just like the real thing
September 2016
Why La Fura’s Norma is playing with fire at Covent Garden
With its chilling nods to druidic practices, Islamic State and hardline Catholicism, La Fura dels Baus’s new production of Bellini’s Norma packs a political punch – but how will it fare with the purists?
January 2016
From the Guardian archive
Maria Callas: 'whatever one may think of her as a singer, she is a mighty performer'
4 February 1957: Philip Hope-Wallace of the Manchester Guardian reviews Maria Callas in a performance of Vicenzo Bellini’s Norma at Covent Garden
May 2015
Noomi Rapace to play Maria Callas in tale of Aristotle Onassis affair
Biopic will be written and directed by Niki Caro, the New Zealand-born film-maker known for Whale Rider and North Country