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Angelina Jolie honors Maria Callas by wearing the opera singer’s Cartier jewelry at Venice Film Festival
By Kristin Contino,
6 hours ago
Angelina Jolie is singing the praises of this opera icon.
The “Maleficent” star, 49, hit the 2024 Venice Film Festival in a sleek black dress ahead of the premiere of her new movie, “Maria,” Thursday, and she honored the memory of legendary opera singer Maria Callas — whom she plays in the biopic — by wearing one of the late star’s Cartier brooches.
Jolie told Vogue that while she’s not into full-on method dressing, she wanted to pay tribute to Callas with her wardrobe at the festival, stepping out in an Atelier Jolie gown with a gold Cartier Panthère brooch “sitting atop a carved white chalcedony gemstone.”
Angelina Jolie wore the late opera singer Maria Callas’ Cartier brooch to a photocall for the biopic “Maria” in Venice Thursday. WireImage Jolie added a Cartier brooch to her dress. Anthony Harvey/Shutterstock Her Cartier brooch, worn by Jolie Thursday, belonged to Maria Callas. FilmMagic
She posed in a black Atelier Jolie gown for a “Maria” photocall on Thursday. Matt Baron/BEI/Shutterstock Jolie stunned in a champagne gown and fur wrap with a sparkling brooch at the “Maria” premiere Thursday night. WireImage
“I chose not to copy [Maria’s] looks because they are hers, and her Venice carpets were stunning, so I gave a little nod to her—in a different way,” she told Vogue, adding, “You can imagine how special it was to wear a piece of jewelry that was hers.”
Jolie also wears the 1971 Cartier brooch in the film, along with several other vintage pieces belonging to the soprano.
Maria Callas, pictured here in 1958, will be immortalized on screen in Jolie’s film. Getty Images The soprano was known for her love of jewelry. Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images
Even if she didn’t go the way of Margot Robbie or Zendaya in Venice, the “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” star said she “made sure to wear something ladylike” to “honor” Callas.
And when it came time for the premiere Thursday night, she stunned in a champagne-hued gown with a matching fur stole, pinning what appears to be one of the Cartier brooches she described in her Vogue interview pinned to the wrap.
She wore a floral brooch pinned to her fur stole in Venice Thursday night. WireImage Jolie wowed on the red carpet at the Venice Film Festival Thursday. WireImage The star wowed in a brown Saint Laurent dress in Venice earlier Thursday. WireImage
Jolie described the piece — a “Rose ouvrante 1972 flower brooch featuring diamonds, emeralds, sapphires and rubies” with moving petals — in her interview, telling the mag she was “charmed at how it transformed from a closed flower that then blooms.”
“I like to think it made her smile. The little secret in the piece,” she added.
The humanitarian also paid tribute to the opera star by wearing a brown Saint Laurent design earlier in the day, sporting a Grecian-style Saint Laurent gown that nodded to Callas’ on-stage costumes with its draped style.
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