Critic Lloyd Schwartz tells a story about Lezhneva, a Russian singer he "discovered" a few months ago — without realizing he already owned a 2015 recording of her rendition of Handel's early oratorio.

San Diego has a long history of hiring up-and-coming singers before their careers explode, including the young Placido Domingo, Rénee Fleming and Patricia Racette in past decades. Now comes soprano ...

These rising virtuosos are redefining the symphony. Meet six young artists bringing emotion, precision, and power to ...

It didn't take much acting for the ailing heroine to appear wilted. For most of the afternoon before Opera in the Height's "La Traviata" opened, the electricity was out in Lambert Hall's neighborhood.

Standing outside the façade of the great cathedral, Nadine Sierra lifted her voice to the French national anthem, marking the rebirth of Notre Dame. Notre-Dame de Paris reopened its doors this weekend ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Fall Preview Long a rising star, she is getting a new Metropolitan Opera production built around her, the house’s first Spanish-language show in nearly a century. Ailyn Pérez in ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Hairston's winning number was "Come Rain or Come Shine" by Harold Arlen and Johnny ...

One 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 Mary Garden ...

Soprano Ying Huang first came into international attention when she was cast, at age 23, in the title role in Frédéric Mitterand’s film Madame Butterfly. Her 2006 debut at the Metropolitan Opera as ...

The Orlando Opera Company’s production of Puccini’s La Boheme had two big things going for it. One was the Mimi of soprano Elizabeth Holleque, who filled the role of the fragile seamstress with ...