In the George Bizet opera, Carmen is a femme fatale, alluring, quick-tempered, able to captivate and torment men. The role ...

An African American who spent much of her career based in the Netherlands, she said her race was less of a factor in Europe ...

Sierra was 27, an infant by opera standards, when she sang her first Gilda at the Met. Already, she was capable of beautiful ...

The way to greet the opening of the Metropolitan Opera’s 84th season last week was with a polite nod—at least for the events onstage. The premiere production was Francesco Cilea’s 1902 opera Adriana ...

Nadine Sierra stars in the company’s new production, thoughtfully directed by Rolando Villazón, of Bellini’s opera about a ...

Asmik Grigorian laughs when she recalls that she had been singing professionally for more than a decade when the International Opera Awards proclaimed her the "best young female singer" of 2016. "So ...

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 ...

The Berwyn native, who has made an operatic career all over the world, is resettling in Chicago as the Met-backed “Medea” opens Lyric Opera's fall season.

Hildegard Behrens, 72, a German-born soprano who became one of the most acclaimed performers of Wagner's epic operas, died Aug. 18 in a Tokyo hospital after suffering an apparent aneurysm. A former ...

"Too Many Sopranos" stars (from left) Alexandra Wiebe as Madame Pompous, Deirdre Lahiff as Dame Doleful, Isaac Pendley as St. Peter, Brittany Graham as Just Jeannette and Alicia Woodberry as Miss ...

Opera singers have to use the extreme limits of their voice range. Many pedagogical and scientific sources suggest that the highest pitches reached in classical singing can only be produced with a ...