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Maria Callas
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Pablo Larraín’s film attempts to grasp the real human while wallowing in the gorgeousness of it all
Angelina Jolie: ‘It’s usually just me alone with my kids. I actually have quite a private life’
To play Maria Callas in Pablo Larraín’s new film, the star is drawing on her own experience of fame. But she’s far more ordinary than you might think, she says
Tara Erraught: ‘I was terrified. I was, like, Callas probably touched this doorknob’
Singing the same role in the same place as the opera great was a goal fulfilled for Ireland’s leading mezzo and NCH artist-in-residence
First Look: As Maria Callas, Angelina Jolie finally has the starring role she deserves
Venice International Film Festival 2024: Angelina Jolie gives a heart-clutchingly sad performance in a hypnotic film from Pablo Larraín
Richard Coles: ‘Do you know who Shane MacGowan reminded me of? Maria Callas’
Both ‘lived on capital, not interest’, says the former Communard and recently retired vicar, who is bringing his Borderline National Trinket ‘stand-up memoir’ to Ireland
Master Class: An Audience with Maria Callas – The infuriating genius of an opera legend
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‘It’s a good brassy broad of a part’: Maria Callas’s Juilliard masterclasses get an Irish staging
The star’s New York classes inspired Terrence McNally to write his Tony-winning play. Caitríona Ní Mhurchú brings the soprano to life in a new Dublin staging
Monica Bellucci: ‘I have two kids, I have slowed down!’
The multilingual Italian actor is overcoming stage fright to play opera diva Maria Callas
Pianist Christian Blackshaw is set to play Galway: ‘Mozart got into my head’
The English performer will play a concert devoted to the Salzburg prodigy in October
‘I went on stage, the piano was locked. And no one had the key’
Musical idols, dreams and nightmares of West Cork Chamber Music Festival performers
Italian film director Franco Zeffirelli dies at 96
Artist was best known for work with opera singers and on Shakespeare plays
Marrakesh: An unfaltering sense of place and people
Moroccan city’s deeply layered culture is rooted in craft, tradition and humanity
Deborah Kelleher’s ambitious plan for the Royal Irish Academy of Music
The director took over at a tough time. Now she’s driving the academy's expansion for the 21st century
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