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1Clear out junk files and repair common Windows errors2Fix the driver behind crashes, sound loss and screen glitches3Repair Windows errors before they cause bigger problemsSpoilers ahead for Pablo Larraín’s 2024 film Maria. The film ends with Maria Callas singing “Vissi d’Arte” alone in her Paris apartment—not making a public comeback. She collapses after the aria, and her longtime caregivers Ferruccio and Bruna return to find her. The final image is the two of them embracing.
How does Maria end?
In the final scene, Callas sings “Vissi d’Arte,” the aria from Puccini’s Tosca. People outside pause to listen, but the scene frames the performance as private: Maria is singing for herself, not for an audience or a return to the opera stage. Afterward, she collapses beside the piano. Ferruccio, her butler, and Bruna, her housekeeper, arrive too late to help. The film closes on them holding one another.
The closing aria carries particular weight within the story. Netflix Tudum notes that it was also the last aria Callas performed on an operatic stage, more than a decade before the events the film depicts. The film’s final performance is not presented as evidence that she has recovered her former voice or can resume her career.
What does the final scene mean?
Director Pablo Larraín describes the ending as Callas trying to reclaim a voice and identity shaped by years of performing for others. “This is a movie about someone who is looking to find her own voice and understand her identity,” he told Netflix Tudum. In that reading, the final song is an act of self-recognition: she sings on her own terms, even as she understands that her voice is no longer strong enough for the standard she would demand of herself onstage.
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Screenwriter Steven Knight interprets the film’s memories as a life review that offers release rather than torment. “I wanted the experience of flashing back to not be torture for Maria but a cathartic replay,” he said in the same Tudum explainer. The film suggests that revisiting those moments may help her reach peace, but that is the filmmakers’ interpretation—not a verified account of what the historical Callas thought in her final moments.
Why does the film end with Ferruccio and Bruna?
The final embrace turns attention away from Callas’s public legend and toward the people who cared for her privately. Their grief gives the ending a human scale: the story does not finish on applause, a triumphant comeback, or a claim that her former career has been restored. Jolie said she was glad the film honored the real relationships behind these characters: “It’s beautiful to know that she had a few people at the end of her life who really loved her,” she told Tudum.
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Did Angelina Jolie sing in Maria?
Yes. Jolie sang for the role after months of preparation, but the finished opera passages layer her vocals with archival recordings of Callas. Larraín told Tudum that some moments use mostly Callas with a fragment of Jolie, while others contain more Jolie. The result is a blend, not a soundtrack performed entirely by Jolie or simply lifted wholesale from archival recordings. The Associated Press also reported on Jolie’s vocal preparation and the combined approach in its November 27, 2024 report.
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Maria is a 2024 film directed by Larraín and starring Jolie as Callas. The production company describes it as a reimagining of the singer’s final days in 1970s Paris; its official page lists a runtime of 124 minutes. That framing matters: the ending expresses the filmmakers’ ideas about identity, memory, and music rather than establishing exactly how Callas experienced her death. Netflix Tudum reports that Callas stopped performing operas in 1965 and died in 1977 at age 53; those biographical details do not make the film’s final scene a documented reconstruction.
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Sources: Netflix Tudum’s ending explainer and interviews with Larraín, Knight, and Jolie; The Apartment Pictures’ Maria page; and the Associated Press report on Jolie’s preparation and the film’s vocals.
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