Lisette Oropesa is a professional soprano operatic singer who has performed in front of audiences around the world. She ...
Patti Smith is an inspiration to musicians and poets around the world. However, even the most inspirational music legends have inspirations of their own. For the “Gloria” hitmaker, that inspiration ...
The bony-faced, roan-haired soprano who stepped onto the stage of Manhattan’s Metropolitan Opera last week had already been honored in England as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire. In ...
The life of an opera singer is often a perilous one because it relies on that most fragile of all vessels, the human body. Palm Beach Opera faced that reality this week when Jessica Pratt, its star ...
Renée Fleming Renée Fleming is among the artists who resigned after Trump’s takeover of Washington D.C.’s Kennedy Center where she was an Artistic ...
The University of Wyoming Department of Music presents guest artist Sarah Coburn, soprano, with Theresa Bogard, piano, Friday, Sept. 19, at 7:30 p.m. in the Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts ...
The busy mezzo-soprano Marina Viotti has made a career out of versatility: “I think generally people should not do only one ...
Her nearness to God, the soprano says, has helped her navigate a difficult industry. Paola Kudacki/Met Opera The 40-year-old singer started voice lessons at the age of 6, initially coached by her ...
NEW YORK – “Davidsen Goes out with a Bang,” read the headline in Broadway World’s review of the Metropolitan Opera revival of Beethoven’s “Fidelio.” And indeed Lise Davidsen is in a sense “going out.” ...
The mystique surrounding Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen has been that of the late bloomer: After leaning singer-songwriter in her youth, singing in choirs and mistaking herself for a mezzo, Davidsen ...
The music begins with a string quartet’s tentative chords in quiet, Benjamin Britten-like swells. Then a relaxed, almost jazzy beat kicks in, and electronics add a background texture suggesting wind.
Soprano Margaret Woods and pianist J.J. Penna will perform together for Arts on the Square at Market Square Presbyterian Church. The concert will be at 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 19, at the church, 20 S.