NEW YORK (AP) — Angelina Jolie never expected to hit all the notes. But finding the breath of Maria Callas was enough to bring things out of Jolie that she didn’t even know were in her.

Near the end of “Maria,” 53-year-old Maria Callas, the opera diva stunningly played by Angelina Jolie, attempts to make it through the challenging mad scene from “Anna Bolena” in an empty ...

Angelina Jolie took time out from her career for a while, but is back with a vengeance now as an actor with her most acclaimed performance in years as Opera star Maria Callas in Maria, and as a ...

Angelina Jolie stars in Pablo Larraín's Callas drama 'Maria,' which unfolds in Paris over the final week of the legendary opera diva's life in 1977.

Next, Callas’ vocals were extracted from the recordings. Even before that, the next step was to make Jolie’s performance to sound as close to Callas as possible.

Maria, the Pablo Larraín biopic in which she plays opera’s defining diva, Maria Callas, is set to premiere in Venice, Telluride and New York; Without Blood, the war drama she wrote and directed ...