Maria Callas

One hundred years after her birth, Maria Callas still commands attention in the world of opera, which she forever altered with her singular, searing performances.

Paul Wink's new book examines Maria Callas’s inner life and the external forces that led to a blazing career in opera, a loud crash and burn, and a sad and lonely finale.

What is there left to say?Enough to fill an engrossing new film, Maria by Callas, another examination of the life and career of Maria Callas, over 40…

It wasn't as if Leonard Bernstein was looking for work.By 1953, at the age of 35, Bernstein had already created two Broadway hits and had been on top of…

Throughout 2017, our Classical 101 hosts have blogged about anything and everything in the classical music realm — new musical works and old favorites,…

Soprano Maria Callas—controversial, temperamental, with a voice described alternately as "dazzling" and "catastrophic"—remains an enigma whose recordings…

Sept. 16 is the 40th anniversary of the death of Maria Callas. Born in 1923, Callas was 53 years old when she died.She had not sung a fully staged opera…

A few weeks ago during Opera and More, I was remembering soprano Roberta Peters, who died earlier this year. I said that Peters had been Ed Sullivan's…

The legendary diva, who died 40 years ago this year, muses on stardom and fate — both on stage and off — in a luxurious new book of pictures and words.

The Metropolitan Opera broadcasts take a summer break, and I step in to bring you grand opera, both favorites and the unexpected. Opera and More returns…