Angelina Jolie is set to play Maria Callas, perhaps the most famous opera singer of the 20th century, in a biopic directed by Pablo Larraín.
, the Chilean auteur has tapped Angelina Jolie to play “La Divina,” Maria Callas, in a forthcoming biopic. Referred to as “the Bible of opera” by Leonard Bernstein, the Greek-American Callas is perhaps the most famous opera singer of the 20th century, ushering in a revival of Bellini and Rossini with her performances at La Scala . Her talents, however, were frequently overshadowed by the drama in her personal life. As Callas herself once said, “Wherever I am, it is hectic.
Perhaps most famously—after a difficult childhood and tumultuous first marriage to business tycoon Giovanni Battista Meneghini, whom she accused of stealing from her—Callas began a decades-long relationship with the shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, who would go on to leave her for Jackie Kennedy.