Angelina Jolie is having her operatic moment.

The actor graced Venice, Italy on Thursday for the world premiere of her new film, "Maria," at the Venice International Film Festival. The biopic, for which Jolie serves as the titular character, focuses on the isolated final days of the legendary Maria Callas, an American-born Greek soprano singer whose illustrious career spanned from the mid- to late 20th century. Born Maria Kalogeropoulos in Queens, New York, the singer got her start in the industry as a teenager, performing in Athens, Greece.

“I felt such a privilege to feel like I got to know this woman and got to be inside her skin a moment. I really care for her deeply,” Jolie told The Associated Press. “I think I’ll carry that like a friend.

“When I put her big glasses on and her Greek hair and I sat in my little robe as an older lady, I felt a (Maria) that felt like the private (Maria) that the world didn’t know,” she added. “And I connected to her first and, and kind of loved her.”

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Directed by Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín, "Maria" is set in 1977 Paris, the time and place of Callas' untimely death by heart attack at age 53. As noted by The AP, the film's premiere in Venice fulfills Larraín's triptych of movies about iconic female figures in history. In 2016, he and actor Natalie Portman........

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