At an intimate party in Soho recently, the designer Erdem Moralıoğlu introduced a screening of Maria (the Pablo Larraín-directed biopic centred around the last days of Maria Callas’s tumultuous life starring Angelina Jolie).

After Maria Callas’ death, aged just 53, many reflected on the life and career of the incredibly talented opera singer as one of great tragedy. Born in the 1920s to Greek immigrants in New York, she had a difficult childhood marked by her father’s infidelity and her parents’ divorce.

Maria” marks the third installment, after “Jackie” and “Spencer,” in director Pablo Larraín’s pseudo-trilogy of historical biopics.

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Angelina Jolie relished doing something that was terrifying to her by learning how to sing to play opera legend Maria Callas in the biopic 'Maria'.