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 ...

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 ...

Whether singing Carmen or Cherubino, mezzo sopranos are the versatile stars of opera. But what makes a mezzo a mezzo? Canadian-Irish opera singer Wallis Giunta introduces her voice part... In its ...

Frida Kahlo returns from the dead in the opera “El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego,” premiering at the Metropolitan Opera this week.

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 ...

Mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves will join Juilliard's Marcus Institute for Vocal Arts as distinguished visiting faculty beginning this month. Recognized worldwide as one of today's most exciting vocal ...

The very first time mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe ever sang in an opera, she was a 17-year-old college freshman at Potsdam State University in New York. The opera was Giacomo Puccini’s “Gianni ...

The curtain rises this weekend on Georges Bizet’s Carmen, the Lyric Opera of Kansas City’s final production of the season. At the heart of this story of love, betrayal and revenge is Carmen, the ...

About 22,000 opera junkies are plunking down hard-earned cash this month and next to see the San Francisco Opera debut of Natalie Dessay, the dazzling French soprano, starring in Donizetti’s “Lucia di ...

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 ...