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In 2012, I commented on a performance at the Salzburg Festival—a performance of Handel’s opera Tamerlano, in concert. I wrote, “There was a mezzo-soprano, previously unknown to me: Marianne Crebassa, ...

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 ...

IN opera, sopranos cough out their last breaths, and tenors are left sobbing over their lifeless bodies. But mezzo-sopranos? They're more like the Christian crusader fighting the heathen outside ...

She didn’t leave on a high note. The Metropolitan Opera booted the best mezzo soprano “on the planet” once she struggled to hit her high notes, the singer claims in a Manhattan Federal Court lawsuit.

Hannah Magnelli, a member of St. Joseph Parish in Richmond, Va., is seen in this undated photo. Magnelli performs opera on the international stage and in January 2022 released her first single, ...

​​Seventy-six trombones led the big parade! So goes the signature song from the famous musical, ‘The Music Man’.

When internationally acclaimed opera star Joyce DiDonato arrived in Houston to start rehearsals for a new production of Rossini's La Cenerentola, she had flashbacks of Spain. "It feels like a little ...

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Janis Martin, the Sacramento-born opera singer who began her career at the San Francisco Opera as a precocious, hardworking mezzo-soprano before attaining international prominence as a soprano in the ...