Shakespeare has nothing to do with Bellini’s “I Capuleti e i Montecchi,” which is based on a different version of the Romeo and Juliet story. But let’s quote the Bard anyway: “O Romeo, Romeo, ...

Pittsburgh Festival Opera has announced the winners of the 10th Annual Mildred Miller International Vocal Competition, Mezzo-Soprano Edition. This is the 10th year of the event that celebrated the ...

Singers are sometimes the last people to know they have a great voice. “My dad was a minister and with my three older sisters, we’d be the music for the church,” said mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung, ...

Anita Rachvelishvili, the once-blazing mezzo-soprano, has struggled with vocal problems since her pregnancy two years ago. The mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili and her husband, Otari Maisuradze, at ...

ROME – ROME (AP) — Giulietta Simionato, an Italian mezzo-soprano whose instantly recognizable voice was wildly popular with audiences, died Wednesday, La Scala opera house said. She would have turned ...

When it comes to buckling on a sword and leading French troops into battle against the perfidious English, you'd be hard pressed to find a more suitable opera singer than Dolora Zajick. Like Joan of ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Italian mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli has released a year-end blockbuster that is part mystery story, part research project and shows off a voice which only seems to improve with ...

This recital spotlights Hankey in a performance of Dichterliebe (A Poet's Love) by Robert Schumann, a set of 16 songs composed by Schumann in response to his separation from his bride, Clara. This ...

Christa Ludwig, who poured a lustrous voice into dramatically taut performances of opera roles — especially those of Mozart, Strauss and Wagner — and intimately rendered art songs as one of the ...