Opening August 8 as part of West Edge Opera’s 2026 Summer Season, “American Apollo” uses scant strokes of available history ...

MUNICH, Germany — Nicholas Brownlee had just fallen in love with opera and was eager to see if his emerging bass-baritone ...

The first time I heard opera, I was eight or nine years old. I remember standing at the top of my grandmother’s basement stairs when her soprano voice rose up to meet me from where she was practising ...

As a student singer she applied three times to be a member of the Glyndebourne chorus and on each occasion was rejected. Yet in 1976 she was asked to sing Countess Madeleine in Strauss’s Capriccio for ...

Look down the stone stairs behind the Royal Albert Hall and across the road, and you are staring at the red-brown, turreted Victorian block of the Royal College of Music (RCM). A motley conglomeration ...

When I arrived home from the hospital with my hours-old baby nearly three decades ago, my next-door neighbour was making a dramatic exit from her red brick house. She was an internationally renowned ...

When the first half of the film adaptation “Wicked” dropped last year, the rest of the world was introduced to something the theater kids have known since the musical’s Broadway debut in 2003: ...

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LONDON — Cleo Laine, whose husky contralto was one of the most distinctive voices in jazz and who was regarded by many as Britain’s greatest contribution to the quintessentially American music, has ...

First on our list of best American singers is Renée Fleming. In its prime, Fleming's was considered to be one of the most beautiful soprano voices in the world - perhaps even the most beautiful, ...