Just in time for spring break, First Coast Opera will stage Gilbert & Sullivan's The Mikado on March 20 and March 21 in Lewis ...

Davis also gave us significant scenes for heroines with whom she's already created a sensation in a series of debuts around the world. Most lacerating was the awakening from drugged sleep of Janáček's ...

The Marriage of Figaro, ENO: Who needs props when a production’s this fabulous? The plainness of the set puts a huge weight ...

When Contralto Margarete Klose sang in Jenufa at Berlin’s Municipal Opera, she performed excellently. But along with the applause came a shrill of whistles and a thicket of catcalls. It had just been ...

Program pamphlet of Marian Anderson's performance at Milwaukee Auditorium on March 28, 1944. The voice of Marian Anderson performing at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. was heard on Easter ...

Did you know that the role of Rosina in Gioachino Rossini’s The Barber of Seville was originally written for contralto, but a general shortage of contraltos — who apparently are the operatic ...

As summer’s leisure gives way to busy fall months, Walnut Creek-based music organization Festival Opera continues its deep engagement with East Bay communities. Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir ...

Cincinnati’s very own Josie Jones enjoyed a solid operatic career in England while enduring widely reported but largely unsubstantiated rumors in America. Musicians, especially singers and especially ...

Second only to Chicago’s Ravinia Park season is the summer opera given in Cincinnati’s Zoological Garden.* Each year a ten-week season is given there, eight of grand opera, two of light. A standard ...

Maureen O’Hara, in what was likely her last interview, gave all the credit for her success to her mother’s inspiration. "The Quiet Man" star also revealed who her hero was - Éamon de Valera, founder ...