That first time is a little daunting, for some us a lot daunting. Not only is there new jargon to learn, but it’s often not even in English! Whom can you trust enough to ask What’s ‘tessitura’ and is ...

Opera tends to be a love it or hate it form of artistic expression; I fall strictly into the latter camp, since I tend to feel the vocals ruin what otherwise might be a fine piece of music. That ...

The Metropolitan Opera has a dazzling new coloratura soprano. She is Atlanta-born Mattiwilda Dobbs, 31, pert, appealing to the eye, solacing to the most opera-worn ear. She made her debut as Gilda in ...

You would have to be in a pretty miserable mood not to enjoy the Vancouver Opera Festival’s La Cenerentola (Cinderella), a production that manages to be polished and cartoonish at the same time. The ...

(Talk Like An Opera Geek attempts to decode the intriguing and intimidating lexicon of the opera house.) Voices are as individual as the people they belong to, yet the opera world has created ...

In the Canadian Opera Company's production of Mozart's The Abduction from the Seraglio, an opera that stands out for featuring two leading roles for coloratura soprano – the voice type known for speed ...

Opera Birmingham's string of outstanding productions continued this past weekend with "Faust," Charles Gounod's melodiously sumptuous opera about lost youth, lust, morality and an otherworldly ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Yes, that really is a stratospheric A above high C that Audrey Luna sings the first time we hear her in “The Exterminating Angel.” The American coloratura soprano, one of many stars in ...

Soprano Roberta Peters, 23, was just sitting down in the hairdresser’s shop one morning last week when the phone rang. It was a message from the Metropolitan Opera, warning that she might have to ...