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Marina Abramović: 'Take care? No, have guts! Be warrior! Take risk! Fail!'

The world’s foremost performance artist is no stranger to an enraptured audience, but after cheating death it’s taking on new meaning for Marina Abramović, whose UK opera premiere raises the bar in a long, salient career. Richard Godwin meets her backstage

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A century after her birth, opera great Maria Callas is honored with a new museum in Greece

Soprano legend Maria Callas has been honored in Greece a century after her birth to Greek parents in New York with a new museum in Athens

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Your week in chic: from Manolo to Max Mara, here's the coats, cashmere and pop-ups to know now

From Manolo Blahnik's meta pop-up to the Madeleine Thompson cashmere collaboration you need — Laura Antonia Jordan has your weekly fashion cheat sheet

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Who is Maria Callas? First look at Angelina Jolie as the opera singer in new biopic

After Jackie Kennedy and Princess Diana, Pablo Larraín turns his attention to an opera legend

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Angelina Jolie in first-look photos as singer Maria Callas for upcoming biopic

Maria is being directed by Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larrain, known for 2016 biopic Jackie

Evening Standard

Haute couture, autumn-winter 2023/2024: When fashion meets cinema

For his next film, "Finalement" ("Finally"), French director Claude Lelouch places his characters at the heart of a fashion show. The collection in question belongs to Parisian couturier Stéphane Rolland, who reveals his haute couture 2023/2024 winter offering on the grand staircase of the Paris Opera. The event pays homage…

France 24

30 autumn arts highlights, chosen by Observer critics

From Scorsese and Madonna to a Philip Guston retrospective, a Maria Callas tribute and Armando Iannucci’s play on Tory chaos, our writers pick the best things to see this autumn

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Renata Scotto obituary

Dramatically intense soprano with a scintillating if hard-edged tone who relished the role of a diva both on and off stage

The Guardian - UK

Diva review – high-octane glamour at one remove

From Mae West’s white satin to Tina Turner’s showstopping flame dress and Elton John’s Louis XIV look, the definition of diva is taken to the limit in a show where tragedy lurks among the glitter

The Guardian - UK

DIVA at the V&A: this is one hell of a party - but how much star power can you really fit on two floors?

The outfits of Elizabeth Taylor, Cher, and Rihanna are highlights, even if the onslaught of glitz can become overwhelming

Evening Standard

Festival at Greece’s ancient theaters dedicated to Maria Callas and century since her birth

Greece has launched its main summer theater and arts festival, dedicated this year to opera great Maria Callas who was born 100 years ago

The Independent UK

V&A to celebrate ‘power of the diva’ in new exhibition, from Cher to Marilyn Monroe

Featuring costumes worn by Maria Callas, Cher, Elton John, Marilyn Monroe and more, the V&A’s latest fashion exhibition will capture the ‘creativity, ambition, and resilience’ of these showstopping divas

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V&A’s Diva show uses costumes and artefacts to celebrate female creativity

Dresses worn by Marilyn Monroe, Maria Callas – and Elton John’s 50th birthday costume – feature in London exhibition

The Guardian - UK

I will always love you: why Whitney Houston’s legacy lives on 10 years after her death

With a new biopic, a branded makeup range and her place at the V&A next summer, the late US singer is being discovered by a whole new generation of fans

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Rosalía review – pop’s fearless queen conjures a kaleidoscopic paradise

The Spanish superstar sends her audience into raptures with an epic set that proves her status as a daring avant-pop virtuoso

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Angelina Jolie’s Oscar bid: Playing the famously tragic Maria Callas

It looks like Angelina Jolie wants to get serious about her acting career again by signing on to play Maria Callas, the famously tragic opera star who was known for her great talent, temperamental behavior and doomed love affair with Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis, who left her when he…

The Guardian - US

Angelina Jolie to play Maria Callas in Spencer director’s next biopic

The Oscar-winner will play the opera singer in a film that explores the ‘tumultuous, beautiful, and tragic’ story of her life

The Guardian - UK

You give me diva: Meghan Markle shies away from a word worth reclaiming

‘Diva’ has good, neutral and bad connotations – but as singers from Maria Callas to Beyoncé have shown, it is a trait of sheer excellence

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Maria Callas: Letters and Memoirs review – Monica Bellucci’s homage to a superstar

The Italian actor delivers an elegant but eccentric show that can’t quite decide who it’s for: opera aficionados or initiates

Evening Standard

Maria Callas – Letters and Memoirs review: Monica Bellucci’s London stage debut is a Callas-tastrophe

Screen star Monica Bellucci is spectacularly wooden in this tedious meander through opera star Maria Callas’ personal scribblings, which make dull source material

The Guardian - AU

Tina Arena’s unforgettable gig: Maria Callas looked over me as I stepped on to the ancient Greek amphitheatre

The Melbourne-born singer walks in the footsteps of the ‘misunderstood’ soprano on a historic stage in Athens

The Guardian - UK

Monica Bellucci: ‘If your work is just about beauty, you won’t last five minutes’

She studied law, became a model, and then starred in everything from arthouse films to blockbusters. Now the multilingual Italian actor is overcoming a lifetime of stage fright to play opera diva Maria Callas

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