Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Palm Beach Opera hosted its 2026 Opera Gala with a performance featuring world-renowned soprano Lisette Oropesa on March 2 in ...

Gianandrea Noseda conducts the New York Philharmonic performing works by Mozart and Mahler with soloists soprano Golda Schultz and pianist Francesco Piemontesi. ©2024 Chris Lee For this tawdry tale, ...

Michael Aspinall, who has died aged 86, was the Surprising Soprano, a one-man drag act known for parodying opera’s greatest ...

On Friday June 13, 2025, Guild Opera Company is presenting a 5 Sopranos Concert with opera's best mad scenes to highlight the magnificence of the soprano voice and its capabilities. Featuring ...

The last time American soprano Corinne Winters sang with San Diego Opera in 2017, she played the dying courtesan Violetta in Verdi’s in “La traviata.” Now she’s back as the doomed heroine Cio-Cio San ...

Thanks to The Wizard of Oz, the state of Kansas will forever be known for its tornadoes. Another Kansas-born force of nature, the self-styled 'Yankee Diva' and multi-Grammy-winning opera singer Joyce ...

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 ...

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 ...

San Diego has a long history of hiring up-and-coming singers before their careers explode, including the young Placido Domingo, Rénee Fleming and Patricia Racette in past decades. Now comes soprano ...

Immediately following the June 4 opening performance of Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s fairy-tale opera Die Frau ohne Schatten, soprano Nina Stemme, who performed the role of the Dyer’s ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Part fairy tale, part psychodrama, Richard Strauss’s “Die Frau Ohne Schatten” (The Woman Without a Shadow) calls for three big-voiced sopranos who can do justice to a long and ...