MARIA (OST) (2LP)

An icon of the art of singing, played by a Hollywood icon: in his enthusiastically received cinema epic "Maria", Chilean director Pablo Larraín lets Angelina Jolie slip into the role of Maria Callas.

The opera diva's voice is no less overwhelming than her acting performance, making the film, which received standing ovations at the 2024 Venice Film Festival, a captivating musical event. Warner is releasing the soundtrack as opulent audio cinema that presents Callas' great aria successes and other top classical hits in sensational sound.

Responsible for the overwhelming sound experience is none other than the British master of sound engineering John Warhurst, Oscar-winning for his work on the 2018 Freddie Mercury biopic "Bohemian Rhapsody". In the film "Maria", he brings together the singing voices of the title heroine and leading actress in a fascinating synthesis. Embedded in a sound environment of orchestral and piano sounds created especially for the film, this album is a unique experience not only for classical music fans.

In opera highlights such as "Casta diva" from Bellini's "Norma" or "Vissi d'arte" from Puccini's "Tosca", the dazzling stage character Maria Callas and the fragile person behind her merge into one person: a multi-layered musical essence of the film biography, in which Pablo Larraín focuses on the last days of perhaps the greatest opera singer of all time - in cinemas from February 6, 2025.