Asmik Grigorian is reaching a new low — in a positive way — and doing it on one of the world’s top stages. A star soprano, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Metropolitan Opera has named soprano Rachel Willis-Sørensen the winner of the 2025 Beverly Sills Artist Award. The annual $50,000 award recognizes extraordinarily gifted singers with rising Met ...

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.

There isn't always a clear claimant to the title Great American Soprano, and those who do hold it are not necessarily great sopranos at all. It's a name-recognition thing, a personality thing, a ...

The star of “Audra McDonald at the London Palladium” is a multi-talented performer, a six-time Tony winner, a singer who has clearly never even met an off-note but who, in a musical sense, is seldom ...

Felicia Curry interviews mezzo-soprano opera superstar Denyce Graves. WETA Arts host Felicia Curry interviews mezzo-soprano opera superstar Denyce Graves. In this engaging conversation, Curry explores ...

"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 ...

In the vocal typecasting that prevails in opera, sopranos play the heroines, winning the glory as often as they win the tenor. Lower-voiced mezzo-sopranos, on the other hand, usually end up on the ...

BARCELONA (Reuters) - Montserrat Caballe, who took opera into the pop charts by singing "Barcelona" with Freddie Mercury three decades ago, died aged 85 on Saturday. The Spanish soprano, who was born ...