Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rainelle Krause rehearses aerial work as part of composer Léo Delibes' "Flower Duet" with Irini Kyriakidou in June 2018. The two ...

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 ...

"The Barber of Seville," San Francisco Opera''s charming opener of the summer season, is a Rossini gem about power plays, ...

OPERA translated into English, which had not been heard at the Metropolitan since the days when “Parsifal” was performed Anglice to spare the emotions of patriots who could not endure Wagner’s text in ...

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 ...

Last week we scaled the heights of the highest vocal range, the soprano. Today, let's take one step down the vocal ladder. In the opera house, we tend to call them mezzo-sopranos, but there are many ...

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"Cut" may be a dirty word in purer-minded operatic circles, but even the most ardent fans of Richard Strauss must itch for the shears when it comes to Die schweigsame Frau. A really rather trivial ...

Rainelle Krause, a coloratura soprano who went viral for singing a signature aria while hanging upside down from aerial silks, has died after a short hospitalization, her family announced "with ...