NEW YORK (AP) — While singing on the world’s great stages, Nathalie Stutzmann thought about blond lager. “In Europe it’s very common to have the conductor getting a beer right backstage. I was so ...

Madame Ernestine Schumann-Heink, a world famous operatic contralto, weighed in on women’s rights – and women’s appearances – prior to her concert in Walla Walla. “Let them dance, but let them be ...

Did you know that the role of Rosina in Gioachino Rossini’s The Barber of Seville was originally written for contralto, but a general shortage of contraltos — who apparently are the operatic ...

Claramae Turner, an operatic contralto best remembered for her celebrated rendition of “You’ll Never Walk Alone” in the 1956 film ”Carousel,” died May 18 in Santa Rosa, Calif. She was 92. The Rodgers ...

Opera star Rosa Raisa waves from a train platform in Chicago in the 1920s. Opera star Rosa Raisa in an early, undated photo in Chicago. Italian baritone Cesare Formichi holds famous soprano Rosa Raisa ...

The second in the series of historic operatic concerts will be given under the auspices of the Boston Opera Company and the Department of Music in Sanders Theatre this evening at 8.15 o'clock.

KALAMAZOO, Mich.—Faculty baritone and opera director Carl Ratner will celebrate a major birthday by presenting a recital of operatic excerpts with pianist Gunta Laukmane at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 17, ...

Cincinnati’s very own Josie Jones enjoyed a solid operatic career in England while enduring widely reported but largely unsubstantiated rumors in America. Musicians, especially singers and especially ...