Vilma Jää never expected to play a major role in one of the 21st century’s most acclaimed operas when she enrolled at the ...

The very first time mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe ever sang in an opera, she was a 17-year-old college freshman at Potsdam State University in New York. The opera was Giacomo Puccini’s “Gianni ...

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A celebrated performer on the international stage, Raven has appeared with leading companies and orchestras across the United States and abroad. She made her Metropolitan Opera debut last season in ...

School shootings are a tragically common occurrence in the United States, but rarely do they grace the stage of one of the ...

She didn’t leave on a high note. The Metropolitan Opera booted the best mezzo soprano “on the planet” once she struggled to hit her high notes, the singer claims in a Manhattan Federal Court lawsuit.

Did you know that, in 1961, years before the passing of the Civil Rights Act, President John F. Kennedy appointed a Black woman from Madison, North Carolina to the National Music Committee? Many ...

Mildred Miller Posvar, a Rust Belt singing sensation who soared to stardom on some of the world’s biggest opera stages before finally alighting in Pittsburgh, where she coached voice for decades, ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Listen to the warm, rich sound of Marilyn Horne, Janet Baker, Grace Bumbry and more. In the past we’ve chosen the five minutes or so we would play to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Patricia Johnson as Jane (Giovanna) Seymour in Anna Bolena by Donizetti at Glyndebourne in 1965 - Guy Gravett/Glyndebourne ...

Opera lovers and community leaders donned their black ties and gathered at The Breakers for the Palm Beach Opera's annual gala. The event took place Feb. 6. More Palm Beach society news here. Judy ...