Richard Strauss’s “Salome” has been described by opera singers, conductors, critics and fans as one of the world’s most thrilling, fast-paced and visceral works in the repertoire. And yet, the ...

Colgate University hosted Francesca Zambello ’78, the inaugural Clifford family innovator-in-residence, on campus during the ...

Streamlining Melville’s sprawling novel, Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s moody, monochromatic 2010 adaptation has come to the Metropolitan Opera.

FILE - Opera singer David Daniels performs as Prospero during the final dress rehearsal of "The Enchanted Island," at the Metropolitan Opera in New York on Dec. 28, 2011. DETROIT (AP ...

When Leonard Foglia was invited to direct an opera based on Herman Melville’s masterpiece ... In addition to Costello, the ...

It has happened occasionally in more recent times that stars from the world of opera have crossed over to attain a degree of mainstream popularity—Plácido Domingo, José Carrera and Luciano Pavarotti, ...

Roberta Flack, the Grammy-winning soul singer best known for her celebrated ... as producer – a role typically filled by men in a male-dominated industry – crediting herself as Rubina Flake ...

Initially, Flack wanted to be a concert pianist but then studied voice and aspired to be an opera singer. She gave up ... which was mostly male-dominated. Her debut album "First Take" (1969 ...

Italian tenor Romano Emili has died at the age of 87. Born on Nov. 7, 1937, in Bologna, Italy, Emili debuted in 1965 in Rossini’s “La gazza ladra” and continued to perform until the 1990s, winning ...

Still, with the opera heavily focused on the two lovers and their travails in the midst of a bellicose chorus, there’s less opportunity for the male voices to shine. Masimba Ushe’s Lorenzo (the ...

(AP Photo/Jason DeCrow, File) NEW YORK (AP) — Jerry Butler, a premier soul singer of the 1960s and after whose rich, intimate baritone graced such hits as “For Your Precious Love,” “Only the Strong ...