NEW YORK -- Mezzo-soprano opera star Rise Stevens, who sang with the Metropolitan Opera for more than 20 years spanning the 1940s and 1950s, has died. She was 99. Stevens died Wednesday night at her ...

Did you know that, in 1961, years before the passing of the Civil Rights Act, President John F. Kennedy appointed a Black woman from Madison, North Carolina to the National Music Committee? Many ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves will join Juilliard's Marcus Institute for Vocal Arts ...

The concert is free to attend, with no tickets required. All net proceeds from a free-will offering will benefit the Milton Food Pantry and Milton Residents Fund. The performers are donating their ...

NEW YORK (AP) — J’Nai Bridges says she was “way too young” when she sang her first performance in the title role of Bizet’s opera “Carmen.” That was back in 2011, when the African-American ...

Minnesota Opera is doing something similar with its new production of Mozart’s rom-com of an opera, “Così fan tutte,” which opens the company’s 63rd season. Mozart and his librettist left this opera ...

This Sept. 11, 2018 photo released by The Metropolitan Opera shows mezzo-soprano Elina Garanca as Dalila in a scene from Saint-Saens' "Samson et Dalila" at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. A new ...

This summer has thrown Heather Johnson back to her teenage years. She's living at her parents' White Bear Lake home, hanging out with old high school friends and soaking up some sun. ¶ And when her ...

On this week’s episode of Working, June Thomas spoke with mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton. They discussed all the expenses soloists have to cover, opera singers’ peculiar schedules, and shopping for gowns.

For Elina Garanca, there's a clue nestled in the score of Camille Saint-Saens' opera "Samson et Dalila" that suggests the pagan beauty has genuine feelings for the hero she has vowed to destroy. "It's ...