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The Australian opera world is reeling from the loss of mezzo-soprano Rosemary Gunn, whose voice and powerful stage presence ...
Residence—a group of distinguished opera professionals who will perform in the company’s four mainstage productions. Learn ...
Gunn started her career with The Australian Opera in 1972. The singer worked with the company for over forty years, leaving behind a legacy and her talent in the industry.
At Lincoln Center, the American Modern Opera Company contemplates the past, present and future through strikingly different ...
The sought-after mezzo-soprano on growing up in a remote Russian village, the reason she nearly quit — and why her life is ...
Indyana Schneider on music, writing, and her second novel Since the World Is Ending, a tense love triangle set over one ...
In the vocal typecasting that prevails in opera, sopranos play the heroines, winning the glory as often as they win the tenor. Lower-voiced mezzo-sopranos, on the other hand, usually end up on the ...
San Diego mezzo-soprano Guadalupe Paz will play the title role in San Diego Opera’s “Carmen” on March 28, 2026. Melody Wilson will play the role March 27 and 29.
A Soprano, a Mezzo and a Composer Join Forces to Start New Wave Opera The new opera company performs works by all-living composers.
O ne of the world’s great sopranos, La Scala’s U.S.-born Maria Meneghini Callas, made her U.S. debut in Chicago last week. It was a rouser. recalling Chicago’s greatest operatic days with ...
The best sopranos and magical mezzos, heroic tenors and a mighty bass or two. From star divas of history to the finest voices of today, here’s our list of the greatest opera singers in history.