What to know about the opera singer Maria Callas before watching the Netflix biopic Maria, starring Angelina Jolie

Netflix biopic Maria, starring Angelina Jolie as Maria Callas, gets some details wrong about the influential opera singer’s life.

Yes, Maria is based on the true story of Greek opera singer Maria Callas, who died of a heart attack in 1977, when she was only 53 years old. Maria imagines the last few days of Callas’s life, in which once the once-great opera singer struggles with a drug addiction, hallucinations, and her declining health.

Angelina Jolie stars as soprano Maria Callas in Pablo Larraín's film "Maria," streaming on Netflix. Here's how she prepared and transformed her voice.

The final weeks of Callas’ death were shrouded in mystery and scandal. Here’s where the new biopic sheds some light, and where it indulges in shadow.

I didn’t need to see Maria, the movie starring Angelina Jolie about the last week of Maria Callas’s life to know that it would feature a woman disintegrating as she remembers past triumphs and disasters.

Netflix U.S. has just added a stirring new biopic starring Oscar-winning performer, Angelina Jolie. "Maria" is the latest effort from Pablo Larraín, and continues his recent run of biographical historical dramas looking at iconic women from the 20th century after 2021's "Spencer" and the Natalie Portman-fronted 2016 biopic, "Jackie".

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There is 'Maria' and there is Maria Callas. Our classical music critic on how the Netflix movie compares with the Maria Callas he encountered and from whom he learned the meaning of Italian opera.

Fame, fortune and success: Everyone thinks that those three things go hand-in-hand. But as legendary opera singer Maria Callas discovered, great fame and great talent do not always equal great happiness.

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“Maria,” which began streaming on Netflix last week, focuses on Callas’ reclusive last years when she was, if you care to believe this account, pitifully self-destructive. She had lost her voice and her lover, and she had nothing to live fo