From stratospheric coloraturas to jet-powered Wagnerians, learn to love our highest-flying singers. Talk Like An Opera Geek: Sizing Up Sopranos Talk Like An Opera Geek: Sizing Up Sopranos Talk Like An ...

Joan Sutherland, one of the most acclaimed sopranos of the 20th century, died on Sunday at her home in Switzerland, near Montreux. She was 83. Her death was confirmed by her close friend the ...

The star of “Audra McDonald at the London Palladium” is a multi-talented performer, a six-time Tony winner, a singer who has clearly never even met an off-note but who, in a musical sense, is seldom ...

Her nearness to God, the soprano says, has helped her navigate a difficult industry. Paola Kudacki/Met Opera The 40-year-old singer started voice lessons at the age of 6, initially coached by her ...

Observer connected with the breakout star to discuss her commanding voice, bold theatricality and Claus Guth's provocative new 'Salome.' Elza van den Heever at the Kaiserin in Die Frau ohne Schatten.

‘Scilla Cristiano is one of the best lyric sopranos in the world,” says Joshua Collier, artistic director of Opera Vermont. “I’ve heard so many lyric sopranos, household names that appear on big ...

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. Clearly, it ...

There isn't always a clear claimant to the title Great American Soprano, and those who do hold it are not necessarily great sopranos at all. It's a name-recognition thing, a personality thing, a ...

Bob Crowley’s belle époque designs don’t so much leave you humming the scenery as bellowing it: that gilded ceiling! The Sissi-inspired ballgown! The black-and-red casino fantasy! Heading into its ...

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 ...