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Maria Callas

March 2024

  • Maria Callas with the shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis

    Diva by Daisy Goodwin review – a novelisation of Maria Callas and Aristotle Onassis’s tumultuous affair

  • Still inspiring today … Maria Callas in Pasolini's Medea opera film.

    The biggest myth about Maria Callas? She was no tragic icon

February 2024

  • Models walk in front of the Parthenon marbles at the Erdem show at the British Museum, in dramatic, dark-lit room: two wear a white coat-like garment with huge collars, embroidered with red flowers; one a bright red taffeta evening dress with long, matching cloak and a huge bow at the waist; another a white and pink fluffy feathered coat with matching shoes; and others in red and turquoise silk cocktail pyjama outfits

    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 in concert with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

    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

  • Hologram of late opera singer Maria Callas performs in concert in Mexico<br>epa07497909 A hologram of late opera singer Maria Callas performs during a concert at the National Auditorium of Mexico City in Mexico City, Mexico, 10 April 2019. Attendees were able to enjoy the art of Maria Callas (1923-1977) with a live orchestra through the use of state-of-the-art technology that shows the artist, who in life appeared in Mexico for the first time in 1950, through the use of a hologram that sings, moves and interacts. EPA/JOSE MENDEZ

    Enduring greatness: five essential Maria Callas recordings on her centenary

  • Maria Callas, Milan, April 1958.

    La dolce vita? Maria Callas, the life of a diva – in pictures

  • Maria Callas as Tosca at La Scala, Milan.

    ‘They’ll see she was extraordinary’: Callas centenary inspires new generation to find the real Maria

  • Marina Abramović  in 7 Deaths Of Maria Callas at the Coliseum.

    7 Deaths of Maria Callas review – Marina Abramović dreams up a diva’s greatest hits

October 2022

  • Angelina Jolie and Maria Callas.

    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

  • Monica Bellucci, Maria Callas Letters and Memoirs photocall, Spoleto63 Festival of 2Worlds, Spoleto, Italy - August 2020

    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

  • Australian singer Tina Arena and Maria Callas during a photo session in 1962

    My unforgettable gig
    Tina Arena’s unforgettable gig: Maria Callas looked over me as I stepped on to the ancient Greek amphitheatre

  • GREECE-ART-THEATER-BELUCCI<br>Italian actress Monica Belucci performs Maria Callas in the Ancient Herodus Atticus Odeon at the steps of the Acropolis on October 21, 2021. - For three nights in Athens, Monica Bellucci plays the iconic Greek opera singer in the highly acclaimed production of 'Maria Callas: Letters &amp; Memories'. (Photo by LOUISA GOULIAMAKI / AFP) (Photo by LOUISA GOULIAMAKI/AFP via Getty Images)

    Monica Bellucci: ‘If your work is just about beauty, you won’t last five minutes’

October 2021

  • The sculpture stands opposite the Odeon of Herodes Atticus in a small park close to the Acropolis

    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

  • Maria Callas with lover Aristotle Onassis in 1959.

    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

    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

  • Miley Cyrus in Black Mirror season 5

    '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

  • Holographic projections, from left, of Maria Callas, Tupac Shakur, Roy Orbison and Whitney Houston.

    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

  • Norma at the Royal Opera House

    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

  • Opera singer Maria Callas, circa 1957, 
 Paris, France.

    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 will be playing Maria Callas in a new biopic,

    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
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