NEW YORK -- Mezzo-soprano opera star Rise Stevens, who sang with the Metropolitan Opera for more than 20 years spanning the 1940s and 1950s, has died. She was 99. Stevens died Wednesday night at her ...

Catherine Cook came to the Bay Area in 1990 to participate in the Merola Opera Program, then returned the following year as an Adler Fellow. And she never left. For nearly a quarter of a century, the ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves will join Juilliard's Marcus Institute for Vocal Arts ...

Did you know that, in 1961, years before the passing of the Civil Rights Act, President John F. Kennedy appointed a Black woman from Madison, North Carolina to the National Music Committee? Many ...

This Sept. 11, 2018 photo released by The Metropolitan Opera shows mezzo-soprano Elina Garanca as Dalila in a scene from Saint-Saens' "Samson et Dalila" at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. A new ...

IN opera, sopranos cough out their last breaths, and tenors are left sobbing over their lifeless bodies. But mezzo-sopranos? They're more like the Christian crusader fighting the heathen outside ...

This summer has thrown Heather Johnson back to her teenage years. She's living at her parents' White Bear Lake home, hanging out with old high school friends and soaking up some sun. ¶ And when her ...

On this week’s episode of Working, June Thomas spoke with mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton. They discussed all the expenses soloists have to cover, opera singers’ peculiar schedules, and shopping for gowns.

SAN JOSE — Irene Dalis, the beloved Grande Dame of the South Bay arts scene who reached the lofty heights of international stardom as a mezzo-soprano opera star before returning home to found Opera ...

NEW YORK (AP) — For Elina Garanca, there's a clue nestled in the score of Camille Saint-Saens' opera "Samson et Dalila" that suggests the pagan beauty has genuine feelings for the hero she has vowed ...