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 ...

Soprano Anna Netrebko will return to London's Royal Opera after a six-year absence to open the 2025-26 season in a new production of Puccini's "Tosca" that starts Jakub Hrůša's tenure as music ...

Latonia Moore remembers clearly the moment she fell in love with opera. She entered the University of North Texas as a jazz performance major, but a classical music requirement led her to sing in the ...

LONDON (AP) — Dozens of Ukrainians and their supporters have demonstrated outside the Royal Opera House in London to protest a performance by Russian soprano Anna Netrebko. Protesters outside Thursday ...

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.

Are you saying you find it hard to switch off? We don’t have microphones, we can only do maybe one show every two or three days, and so on the off days, you have to try to do a lot of relaxation. But ...

A performance held on Oct. 26 at Rose Hall-Jazz at Lincoln Center was dedicated to the memory of the beloved Metropolitan Opera soprano Licia Albanese (1909-2014), who passed away on Aug. 15 at the ...

The Houston Symphony will kick off its season this weekend with a scorcher: "Valčuha Conducts Stravinsky’s Firebird." While Stravinksy’s piece might be the headliner, it is guest soprano Angel Blue ...

“Davidsen Goes out with a Bang,” read the headline in Broadway World’s review of the Metropolitan Opera revival of Beethoven’s “Fidelio.” And indeed Lise Davidsen is in a sense “going out.” After she ...

In this Jan. 26, 2010 file photo, Italian opera soprano Mirella Freni poses at the 44th MIDEM (International record music publishing and video music market) in Cannes, southern France. (AP ...