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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Soprano legend Maria Callas has been honored in Greece a century after her birth to Greek parents in New York with a new museum in Athens.

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 ...

‘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.

Spanish royalty, politicians and Catalan tenor Jose Carreras joined family and friends of legendary soprano singer Montserrat Caballe for her funeral on Monday, two days after her death at the age ...

There was a buzz in the lobby of the opera house and scalpers galore outside the doors to the ticket office for soprano Asmik Grigorian’s recent sell-out concert at the Vienna State Opera ...