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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 2012, Sumi Hwang won second prize at the ARD Music Competition in Munich, followed this year by the Grand Prize at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels. The Korean soprano showed why at her ...

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 ...

They perform a programme showcasing works from composers ranging from Mozart to Igor Shamo.

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 ...

The last time we saw and heard soprano Laura Aikin, she was leaning out over the stage of the War Memorial Opera House at an implausible angle, one silvery wing quivering in the ether, emitting sounds ...