NEW YORK – While singing on the world’s great stages, Nathalie Stutzmann thought about blond lager. “In Europe it’s very common to have the conductor getting a beer right backstage. I was so thirsty ...

“Oh là là! I’m actually living my dream,” said conductor and contralto Nathalie Stutzmann. “My two biggest goals in life were to be a singer and a conductor, and I am just living my dream.” Nathalie ...

Contralto Lili Chookasian, who sang with the Metropolitan Opera for 24 years, died Tuesday. The former Tenafly, N.J., resident was 90. Chookasian was a 41-year-old mother of three in March 1962 when ...