If you’re going to play legendary opera singer Maria Callas in a movie, you’re going to have to know how to sing—or be very, very good at faking it. For Angelina Jolie in Maria on Netflix, which began streaming today, both of these things are true.
Directed by Pablo Larraín—in this third “iconic woman” biopic, following 2016’s Jackie and 2021’s Spencer—with a script by Steven Knight (who also wrote Spencer), Maria star Jolie as Greek opera singer Maria Callas. Callas is known not just for her incredible voice, but also her diva persona, health struggles, and romantic scandals. Maria opts to focus in on the final days of her life, when she was living in near-isolation in Paris in the 1970s. She died of a heart attack in 1977, when she was only 53.
Though Maria is set at the end of Callas’s life, after her singing career was long over,
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