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When John Cage composed an opera commemorating the American bicentennial audiences walked out. Now, it's being reinterpreted ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Margaret King, an 18-year-old soprano singer from Princeton, was recently a Grand Prize winner of the prestigious state-wide ...

She didn’t leave on a high note. The Metropolitan Opera booted the best mezzo-soprano “on the planet” once she struggled to hit her high notes, the singer claims in a Manhattan federal lawsuit. Anita ...

The coloratura soprano Rainelle Krause, who died in March, was one of the most sought after performers of Queen of the Night ...

Tall and self-possessed, with an air of wit and sophistication, she was superb in works by Mozart and Strauss, and was also a wide-ranging recitalist.

Patti Smith is an inspiration to musicians and poets around the world. However, even the most inspirational music legends have inspirations of their own. For the “Gloria” hitmaker, that inspiration ...

The French really know how to write sensual music,” swoons Aigul Akhmetshina. The 29-year-old Russian mezzo-soprano is ...

Growing up in South Africa, internationally celebrated opera singer Pretty Yende hadn’t even heard of opera until she was almost out of high school. Now, she’s hailed as one of her generation’s most ...

Paisley Opera are currently undertaking an ambitious production of Carmen while trying to show the art form does not have to be posh.