Oscar winner Angelina Jolie recalled her intense training to play opera legend Maria Callas in the upcoming Netflix movie "Maria."

EXCLUSIVE: Angelina Jolie says that roles such as her portrayal of Maria Callas - arguably the greatest prima donna assoluta soprano of all time - in director Pablo Larraín’s Maria, come along “once in a lifetime.

"I know she would have loved to be here tonight," Jolie said of late opera singer Maria Callas, whom she portrays in the film

Angelina Jolie and three of her children lit up the New York Film Festival’s red carpet over the weekend. Jolie, 49, was joined by her children, Pax, 20, Zahara, 19, and Maddox, 23, as she attended the festival’s premiere of her film Maria on Sunday.