From stratospheric coloraturas to jet-powered Wagnerians, learn to love our highest-flying singers. Talk Like An Opera Geek: Sizing Up Sopranos Talk Like An Opera Geek: Sizing Up Sopranos Talk Like An ...

Asmik Grigorian laughs when she recalls that she had been singing professionally for more than a decade when the International Opera Awards proclaimed her the "best young female singer" of 2016. "So ...

Observer connected with the breakout star to discuss her commanding voice, bold theatricality and Claus Guth's provocative new 'Salome.' Elza van den Heever at the Kaiserin in Die Frau ohne Schatten.

The Metropolitan Opera has named soprano Rachel Willis-Sørensen the winner of the 2025 Beverly Sills Artist Award. The annual $50,000 award recognizes extraordinarily gifted singers with rising Met ...

The star of “Audra McDonald at the London Palladium” is a multi-talented performer, a six-time Tony winner, a singer who has clearly never even met an off-note but who, in a musical sense, is seldom ...

Her nearness to God, the soprano says, has helped her navigate a difficult industry. Paola Kudacki/Met Opera The 40-year-old singer started voice lessons at the age of 6, initially coached by her ...

There isn't always a clear claimant to the title Great American Soprano, and those who do hold it are not necessarily great sopranos at all. It's a name-recognition thing, a personality thing, a ...

As a singer and recent college graduate in 1997, Isabel Bayrakdarian faced a pivotal decision. She had just earned a degree in biomedical engineering from the University of Toronto, and two very ...

Bob Crowley’s belle époque designs don’t so much leave you humming the scenery as bellowing it: that gilded ceiling! The Sissi-inspired ballgown! The black-and-red casino fantasy! Heading into its ...

In the vocal typecasting that prevails in opera, sopranos play the heroines, winning the glory as often as they win the tenor. Lower-voiced mezzo-sopranos, on the other hand, usually end up on the ...

"Too Many Sopranos" stars (from left) Alexandra Wiebe as Madame Pompous, Deirdre Lahiff as Dame Doleful, Isaac Pendley as St. Peter, Brittany Graham as Just Jeannette and Alicia Woodberry as Miss ...

BARCELONA (Reuters) - Montserrat Caballe, who took opera into the pop charts by singing "Barcelona" with Freddie Mercury three decades ago, died aged 85 on Saturday. The Spanish soprano, who was born ...