The prestigious classical music publication, Gramophone, recently listed their 10 greatest Puccini singers of all time. There were a few omissions that raised my ire along with a few inclusions that ...
Famed opera singer Maria Callas is the subject of a new biopic Maria, now streaming on Netflix, with Academy Award–winning actor Angelina Jolie portraying the late music icon. The movie received an ...
Giuseppe Verdi composed some of the greatest operas ever – La Traviata, Il Trovatore, Rigoletto, Aida, Otello and many others ...
Leonard Bernstein called her “The Bible of Opera.” Yves Saint Laurent once said she was the “Diva of Divas.” The critics gave her the nickname of “La Divina” or “The Divine One.” But in the new film ...
The art production of the new feature film “Maria” is stunning and the story of one of the greatest opera singers to ever live is as dramatic as any Greek tragedy. But the explosive power of the ...
Angelina Jolie is doing it the hard way. She’s playing an opera singer in “Maria.” You know she could’ve faked it. She could’ve lip-synced. Instead, the Oscar-winning actress conquered her fear of ...
"I've re-learned that word through Maria, and I have a new relationship to it," Jolie said at the Venice Film Festival Pablo Larraín Angelina Jolie learned a lot from playing singer Maria Callas — ...
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I’d say one of the greatest barriers to enjoying opera is knowing whether or not the singing is good. I’m being serious. It’s a problem for those who haven’t spent years studying voice or exploring ...