The way to greet the opening of the Metropolitan Opera's 84th season last week was with a polite nod—at least for the events onstage. The premiere production was Francesco Cilea's ...

Berkshire Opera Festival's "La Traviata" will feature a singer making her debut in the leading role, one Berkshire-born opera ...

As Newsweek music critic Hubert Saal wrote in 1978, two years after Ms. Behrens's first performance with the Met: "Many operatic sopranos, even some great ones, deliberately choose the roles that ...

Celebrated mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves, acclaimed for her riveting performances on the world's great opera stages, her activism in support of diversity in the arts, and her championing of new ...

‘Diva’ film soprano, Philadelphia-native Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez Smith has died at 75 Fernandez Smith was a Philadelphia native who sang through the U.S. and Europe during her operatic career.

Ms. McDonald proves herself an engaging and even endearing presence in this “Great Performances” entry, but as an operatic soprano she has the same problem as any classically trained vocalist ...

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 ...