Nearly 20 years before the centenary celebration of Samuel Barber’s birth, Melissa Fogarty knew she wanted to pay tribute to the occasion in song. As a student at the Eastman School of Music in ...

One of the world’s great sopranos, La Scala’s U.S.-born Maria Meneghini Callas, made her U.S. debut in Chicago last week. It was a rouser. recalling Chicago’s greatest operatic days with Mary Garden ...

Judith Nelson, a soprano whose dozens of recordings and countless live performances in the Bay Area and internationally set a standard for the performance of Baroque music, died Monday in a care ...

The combination of soprano and organ is common enough in a church setting (so I’m told), but it’s less often encountered in the concert hall. So Sunday’s short and perfectly delightful joint recital ...

The Albanian soprano, who has won over audiences on both sides of the Atlantic, fell in love with “La Traviata” at 14. By Rebecca Schmid Nedda, the leading female character of Leoncavallo’s “Pagliacci ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Listen to the warm, rich sound of Marilyn Horne, Janet Baker, Grace Bumbry and more. In the past we’ve chosen the five minutes or so we would play to ...

This 2017 photo provided by the Metropolitan Opera shows Nadine Sierra as Ilia in Mozart’s “Idomeneo” in New York. She made history of sorts at age 20 by becoming the youngest singer ever to win the ...

Opera stars who can—or will—sing two major roles in one day are about as rare as pitchers who are up to hurling both games of a doubleheader.* The Metropolitan Opera’s Eleanor Steber did it once by ...

Obviously, not all sayings are true. For instance, take the one that says “Those who can, do; Those who can’t teach.” ...