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‘Maria’ Production Designer on Re-creating the Opera Singer’s Lavish World

The Hollywood Reporter
Story by Lexy Perez
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Angelina Jolie transforms into legendary opera diva Maria Callas as production designer Guy Dyas recreates the lavish world of the legendary soprano in the Netflix biopic 'Maria'.
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  • Designer Guy Dyas painstakingly re-created Callas' Paris apartment, including her iconic grand piano that was too large to fit through the doorway, so a smaller, hollow version was built for the actors to move around.
  • Dyas designed Callas' opulent bed, an 8-foot-tall headboard filled with Italian moldings and a painting of the Madonna, to make her bedroom feel like an 'opera stage' and capture the singer's larger-than-life persona.
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Angelina Jolie, Guy H Dyas, Pablo Larraín, Maria Callas, Aristotle Onassis, Bruna, Netflix, 'Maria'
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