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Angelina Jolie's Maria Callas biopic gets official release date on Netflix


The 49-year-old Oscar winner stars as the legendary opera singer in Maria, which received an eight-minute standing ovation at Venice International Film Festival on August 29

Jolie - who had never sung onscreen or in public - spent seven months training with vocal coach Eric Vetro; whose clients include Ariana Grande, Sabrina Carpenter, John Legend, Camila Cabello, Shawn Mendes, Rosalía, and Charlie Puth. Jolie - who had never sung onscreen or in public - spent seven months training with vocal coach Eric Vetro (L, pictured February 15); whose clients include Ariana Grande, Sabrina Carpenter, John Legend, Camila Cabello, Shawn Mendes, Rosalía, and Charlie Puth (R) Callas' powerful soprano pipes had three distinct registers and measured just short of three octaves, and she performed her final concert in 1965 following a decline blamed on everything from dermatomyositis, to early onset menopause, to her extreme 80lb weight loss in 1954 (pictured in 1952)

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