Maria Ewing poses for a photographer in her costume as Melisande in the opera "Pelleas et Melisande." (Ira Nowinski/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images) Maria Ewing, a daring and original American ...

DETROIT (AP) — Maria Ewing, a soprano and mezzo-soprano noted for intense performances who became the wife of director Peter Hall and the mother of actor-director Rebecca Hall, has died at age 71.

Opera singer Maria Ewing, known for her electrifying stage performances in Carmen and Salome, has died aged 71. The former wife of director Sir Peter Hall and mother of actress Rebecca Hall, she was a ...

Ewing, who was biracial, is the mother of actress and “Passing” director Rebecca Hall. American opera singer Maria Ewing has passed away at age of 71 after suffering from a ‘brief illness’. The singer ...