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Maria Callas
1923-1977
Maria Callas News: Angelia Jolie Portrays the Late Opera Singer in New Biopic Maria
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 eight-minute standing ovation after its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival this summer, not uncommon for the fest, that The Hollywood Reporter called “electric.”
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The movie reimagines the American-born Greek soprano’s final days in Paris in the 1970s, before her death of what was believed to be a heart attack at age 53. The highly influential opera singer was known for her coloratura vocal range and technique before becoming something of a recluse in her last years.
“I take very seriously the responsibility to Maria’s life and legacy,” Jolie told The Hollywood Reporter in October 2022. Indeed, she did. Over the course of roughl
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Maria Callas
American-born Greek soprano (1923–1977)
"Callas" redirects here. For other uses, see Callas (disambiguation).
Maria Callas[a]Commendatore OMRI (born Maria Anna Cecilia Sofia Kalogeropoulos;[b] December 2, 1923 – September 16, 1977) was an American-born Greek soprano[2] and one of the most renowned and influential opera singers of the 20th century. Many critics praised her bel canto technique, wide-ranging voice and dramatic interpretations. Her repertoire ranged from classical opera seria to the bel canto operas of Donizetti, Bellini, and Rossini, and further to the works of Verdi and Puccini, and in her early career to the music dramas of Wagner. Her musical and dramatic talents led to her being hailed as La Divina ("The Divine One").
Born in Manhattan and raised in Astoria, Queens, New York City, to Greek immigrant parents, she was raised by an overbearing mother who had wanted a son. Maria received her musical edu
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Maria Callas was born in New York City on December 2, 1923. She made her professional debut with the Royal musikdrama of Athens in Boccaccio, and took her first major role in Tosca.
Her Italian musikdrama debut took place at the Verona Arena in 1947. In 1954, Callas made her American debut in Norma. During the 1960s, the quality and frequency of her performances waned. On September 16, 1977, Callas died in Paris.
Early Life
American musikdrama singer Maria Callas was born as Cecilia Sophia Anna Maria Kalogeropoulus on December 2, 1923, in New York City. Her parents, George and Evangelina, were Greek immigrants who shortened their last name to Callas once Maria started primary school.
Callas began taking classical piano lessons when she was 7 years old, but soon realized that she loved singing music—with dramatic flair—even more than playing it. In 1937, when Callas was a teen, her parents separated and she, her mother and her sister moved back to Greece. In Athens, Maria, whose l