One of the most important things musicians can do is listen outside the genre they make, and Linda Ronstadt is a good example ...

Sun, sea and serenity on one of Greece’s most enchanting isles is all at your fingertips when you check into these first-rate ...

Absent from the Milan house for half a century, this performance surrenders to the music of Bellini’s tragic masterpiece ...

I'm not at all convinced by Terrence McNally's stage play Master Class, based on the legendary opera singer Maria Callas. On ...

For visitors to Athens, the ancient Odeon of Herod Atticus is the must-see theater at the foot of the Acropolis. Artists revere it for the majestic stage where legends have performed. And for the ...

The Odeon of Herod Atticus recently opened the 70th season of the annual Athens Epidaurus Festival, a cherished annual ...

To tourists, it’s the ancient theater at the foot of the Acropolis. Artists revere it for the majestic stage where legends ...

The plight of Pierre, &c. Up north and down here, &c. 9/11 as ‘inside job,’ &c. Maria Callas was born on December 2, 1923, meaning that her centennial was about a year ago. I wrote a piece ...

Angelina Jolie’s Major—and Misunderstood—Diva Moment As Maria Callas in Maria, Jolie brings empathy and depth to the enigmatic prima donna.

Sadly, it was to be short-lived. Callas died in Paris, in 1977, of a heart attack. She was 53 years old. Jolie reportedly undertook seven months of operatic tuition to sing at the film’s climax.

Aristotle Onassis had a longtime affair with opera singer Maria Callas that lasted until his death in 1975 at age 69. Callas is the subject of a biopic starring Angelina Jolie.