Benita Valente, 91, a revered lyric soprano whose voice thrilled listeners with its purity and seeming effortlessness, died ...

All that could be heard was the remnant of tenor tones that must have been thrilling in days when phonograph records were a greater drain on the purse. A little later, we saw Paoli in the flesh—no ...

Moore grew up in Houston’s Aldine neighborhood, the middle of five children, singing gospel in her grandfather’s church. Now, ...

From concerts to opera to film festivals and a costumed pet parade, there is a lot to see and do in the Bay Area this weekend ...

An African American who spent much of her career based in the Netherlands, she said her race was less of a factor in Europe ...

A concert commemorating the 90th birth anniversary of Luciano Pavarotti (1935-2007), one of the greatest singers of the 20th ...

Performing in Donizetti’s “La Fille du Régiment” at the Metropolitan Opera, Oh has already perfected the art of waving a fan ...

Mitchell Kahn, artistic director of Pacific Northwest Opera, was formerly the house physician for New York’s Metropolitan ...

But Radvanovsky’s Medea is no snipe. She is a roaring force from the underworld, existing vocally, as Medea must, at the ...

Los Angeles Opera opens James Conlon's final season as music director with 'West Side Story' in Francesca Zambello's ...

And – wait for it – Tosca is with a reduced orchestra, not because some bright spark has decided to freshen it up, modernise it, but for a simpler, more compelling reason: there is no money. What can ...

This summer, one of the biggest names in opera called for a reckoning within the industry. During a lecture at the Voice Foundation in Philadelphia in June, Renée Fleming, a five-time Grammy winner ...