Pittsburgh Festival Opera has announced the winners of the 10th Annual Mildred Miller International Vocal Competition, Mezzo-Soprano Edition. This is the 10th year of the event that celebrated the ...

Shakespeare has nothing to do with Bellini’s “I Capuleti e i Montecchi,” which is based on a different version of the Romeo and Juliet story. But let’s quote the Bard anyway: “O Romeo, Romeo, ...

Singers are sometimes the last people to know they have a great voice. “My dad was a minister and with my three older sisters, we’d be the music for the church,” said mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung, ...

Anita Rachvelishvili, the once-blazing mezzo-soprano, has struggled with vocal problems since her pregnancy two years ago. The mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili and her husband, Otari Maisuradze, at ...

ROME – ROME (AP) — Giulietta Simionato, an Italian mezzo-soprano whose instantly recognizable voice was wildly popular with audiences, died Wednesday, La Scala opera house said. She would have turned ...

Peruse the catalogue of composer Richard Danielpour and one may deduce that he has a predilection for the mezzo-soprano voice. He’s written music for Jessye Norman (”Sweet Talk”), Denyce Graves ...

When it comes to buckling on a sword and leading French troops into battle against the perfidious English, you'd be hard pressed to find a more suitable opera singer than Dolora Zajick. Like Joan of ...

This recital spotlights Hankey in a performance of Dichterliebe (A Poet's Love) by Robert Schumann, a set of 16 songs composed by Schumann in response to his separation from his bride, Clara. This ...

Call it a confluence of divas. Before it devolved into a pejorative for someone who can be arrogant and difficult, diva was the Latin word for “goddess” and customarily was applied to a magnificent ...