Verdi baritones are crown jewels in the opera world, their voices treasured for the legato line – a long, burnished, velvety sound – coupled with powerful high notes that Guiseppe Verdi wrote in his ...

Star of “Rigoletto”, the mafia-style opera that opens Saturday at the Detroit Opera Theatre has a hidden trick to combat stage freight. Hypnosis. “I always tell people: I’m an opera singer, because ...

For Amartuvshin Enkhbat, a Mongolian singer, bringing the role of the cursed court jester to La Scala’s modern production is a personal milestone. By David Belcher In that quarrelsome family of ...

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It”s been a fairy tale life for opera singer Hannah Stephens. Make that faerie tale. Though the 27-year-old British export flourishes on stage — she portrays Gilda in Verdi”s “Rigoletto” by Verismo ...