Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. If ever a star cried out to be immortalised on screen, surely it was the glamorous and tempestuous Maria ...

Start your Independent Premium subscription today. Almost 50 years on from her death, however, the public perception of Maria Callas all too often skews in one direction: the tortured female star.

Maria Callas was singing Tosca at Covent Garden. It was, he recalls having listened back to a snatch of it 60 years on, life-changing. Only one problem, sniffs a musicologist in an ivory tower.

Maria ­Callas was only 45 when she grimly assessed her situation during an interview with the critic John Ardoin. She had played all her cards and lost every round, and ­although she would ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — What began as a childhood hobby more than six decades ago has led to what might be Africa's largest butterfly collection in a suburb of Kenya's capital.

Maria Callas’ ethereal statue has been adorning the entrance of the famous Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Italy. Image: Maria Callas in 1958. Credit: CBS Television / Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain ...

Jolie’s study of Callas’ operatic technique pays off in the moments when Maria, who died in her fifties and went through periods of non-singing, senses her voice and heart failing. It is here ...

Vinciquerra pointed out that the Marvel film found success on streaming and refuses to deem it a "terrible film." Vinciquerra noted earlier in the interview that the failure of “Kraven the ...

CREDIT: Hector Vivas/Cindy Ord/Getty The CEO of Sony Pictures has laid the blame for the box office failure of Madame Web and Kraven The Hunter with the critics who “crucified” the films.

Congratulations, you made it. Various apocalyptic moments of 2024 cast doubt on whether we would, to borrow the Hollywood worker mantra, “survive till ’25.” But here we are, closing out a ...

In Nick Park’s latest charming stop-motion animated film, the inventor-beagle team discovers the joys and dangers of technology. By Manohla Dargis A bleak if repetitive thriller centers on a ...

Madam Nazar has a habit of packing up and traveling around the map in Red Dead Online, so here’s where you can find her today, January 1, 2025. As one of RDO’s many NPCs, Madam Nazar provides ...