Angelina Jolie Is A World Class Opera Singer In Teaser Trailer For Pablo Larraín’s Maria

They are saying that in life there are three ensures: dying, taxes, and that if there’s a difficult girl in want of a stylishly executed, painstakingly constructed biopic, then Pablo Larraín is the person to make it. Having sensitively explored the grief of Jackie Kennedy within the wake of JFK’s dying with 2017’s Natalie Portman starrer Jackie, after which made a haunting portrait of Princess Diana’s vulnerability with Kristen Stewart in 2021’s Spencer, Larraín has enlisted the providers of Angelina Jolie to assist inform the story of fêted opera singer Maria Callas within the aptly titled Maria. Try the primary teaser for the movie under:

“Maria, what do you wish to sing?” asks a pianist as Jolie’s Maria seems out on a grand, empty music corridor. From there, we get pictures of Callas – in black and white, on classic movie, in a plethora of beautiful outfits and below varied ranges of scrutiny from the general public and, so it appears, herself — over an ethereal, elegiac orchestral model of Puccini’s ‘Un bel dì, vedremo’ from Madama Butterfly. It is a brief, tone-setting teaser for a film a few girl whose private struggles and related scandals have at instances appeared to forged a shadow over her extraordinary voice, however a strong one nonetheless.

Here is the official, albeit transient, synopsis: “Maria will inform the tumultuous, stunning, and tragic story of the lifetime of the world’s best feminine opera singer, relived, and reimagined throughout her ultimate days in Nineteen Seventies Paris.” To assist inform that story is a powerful ensemble, amongst whose skills embody Pierfrancesco Favino (The Hummingbird), Alba Rohrwacher (La Chimera), Haluk Bilginer (Winter Sleep), Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Energy Of The Canine) and Valeria Golino (Portrait Of A Woman on Fireplace).

With Larraín on the helm and Jolie entrance and centre, whether or not or not opera is your, *ahem*, aria of experience or not, we’ll be seated for Maria when it hits UK cinemas on 10 January, 2025.