Contemporary American opera has made such great artistic strides in the past 15 to 20 years that many call our present time the Golden Age of American Opera. For instance, one of the leading opera ...

Benita Valente, 91, a revered lyric soprano whose voice thrilled listeners with its purity and seeming effortlessness, died ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Fleming is making her directorial debut in Colorado working with young artists on Mozart’s “Così Fan Tutte,” an opera in which she appeared early in her career. “It’s taken less ...

It's an aria that became famous because Handel, as he often did, reused the music and some of the words in a later work, in this case, his opera "Rinaldo," which was one of his biggest hits. "Lascia ...

NEW YORK — Grace Bumbry, a pioneering mezzo-soprano who became the first Black singer to perform at Germany’s Bayreuth Festival during a career of more than three decades on the world’s top stages, ...