Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Leonard Bernstein called her “The Bible of Opera.” Yves Saint Laurent once said she was the “Diva of Divas.” The critics gave her ...

Angelina Jolie learned a lot from playing singer Maria Callas — including lessons from the late opera legend that took her by surprise. Ahead of the premiere of her movie Maria at the 81st Venice Film ...

From fights onstage, to leaving mid-production, opera divas have more than earned their moniker. Morgan Richter, author of 'The Understudy' digs into the drama Difficult. Demanding. Temperamental.

Call it a confluence of divas. Before it devolved into a pejorative for someone who can be arrogant and difficult, diva was the Latin word for “goddess” and customarily was applied to a magnificent ...

Nearly 47 years after her death, one of opera's greatest stars, Greek soprano Maria Callas, is again taking centre stage at the Venice Film Festival played by Angelina Jolie in a new biopic. The ...

It seems only natural that the first production staged at 825 Arts, a 1915 silent-film theater in St. Paul that reopened this month as a modern theater venue, would be “Divas & Drag” — and Monday, ...

If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. From fights onstage, to leaving mid-production, opera divas have more than earned their moniker. Morgan Richter, author of 'The ...