Maria Callas
At the very least, Jerome Charyn’s considerable novelistic imagination should send readers back to any number of documentary films and, most important, to the still very real fact of Maria Callas’s vital recorded legacy.
This might not be everybody’s idea of who Maria Callas was, but the film is plausible, and honest. You can watch Angelina Jolie’s Maria and think, so that’s what it was like to be her.
Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
A massive, comprehensive new box set once again shows us the diva’s indomitable place in the history of opera.
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