There was once a more mysterious version of celebrity. The wall that separated a famous artist’s performance from that same artist’s private life was more difficult to scale. Popular singers didn’t ...

Maria Callas (1923-1977) is often hailed as one of the greatest sopranos of the 20th century. She’s best known for her performances in the operas Medea, Tosca and La Traviata, and when TIME put her on ...

THE BALTIMORE premiere of playwright Terrence McNally’s “The Lisbon Traviata” at Everyman Theatre last week provided yet another reminder that the gay cult of Maria Callas continues apace. In ...

My mother had become an opera singer because she heard Callas singing La Traviata on the radio in 1958 – when she was 16 and the star was in her greatest decade. My mother would go on to train at the ...

RTÉ lyric FM's Liz Nolan introduces her new Lyric Feature documentary revisiting the life and career of legendary opera star Maria Callas - listen to Maria, La Callas above. As a teen, it was me and ...

It's very difficult to write a temperate-sounding article about Maria Callas. How long can one go without throwing around words like "goddess" or making crazy declarations like "I love this woman"?