There isn't a musical instrument on earth that can produce sounds as varied, as beautiful, and as heart-rending as the voice of a woman. That's why we worship our great sopranos, and call them divas.

At the peak of her powers, free to choose what she records, engaged to one of the world’s most exciting singers and expecting her first baby, Anna Netrebko tells Classic FM that life has never felt so ...

PALM BEACH, Fla. — The stage was set, the chandeliers dimmed and the audience hushed. Then superstar Russian soprano Anna Netrebko, in a ruffled flamingo-pink gown and sparkling heels, made her ...

The verismo era flourished a little more than a century ago, when composers like Giacomo Puccini, Umberto Giordano and Alfredo Catalani crafted an operatic style melding elements of Wagnerian harmony ...

"Lots of opera singers are just boring. Bo-o-o-ring. C'mon: get a life! Be more extra—extra—" The world's most famous soprano, Anna Netrebko, can't find the right word. This is a rarity. Extravagant?

In the L.A. Opera’s recent production of “Manon,” Netrebko updated the 18th-century French courtesan to a starstruck 1950s teenager trying to impersonate the likes of Audrey Hepburn, Gina Lollobrigida ...

Soprano Anna Netrebko withdrew from her future engagements at the Metropolitan Opera rather than repudiate her support for Russian President Vladimir Putin, costing the company one of its top singers ...

The Ann Arbor Police Department has arrested Lagarien Thomas, 33, who stabbed a victim at a construction site on the campus of the University of Michigan. Read full article: Investigation underway ...