After Marian Anderson was barred from a Washington stage because of her race, she sang for 75,000 people at the Lincoln ...

Nuala Willis, witty contralto who ranged from Glyndebourne to Dustin Hoffman’s film Quartet She was a stalwart of the composer Jonathan Dove, appearing in his 2002 television opera about the death of ...

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 ...

When Marie Powers was five, an opera singer asked her what she wanted to be when she grew up. Said Marie: “I want to be fat, jolly and an opera singer like you.” Today, fortyish, buxom Marie Powers is ...

Former Metropolitan Opera soprano Deborah Saverance and local contralto Xan Jennings will present a program of operatic duets, arias, spirituals and music from Broadway at the Fine Arts Center on ...

Celebrated contralto Maureen Forrester, who toured the globe giving concert tours and championed Canadian composers, has died at the age of 79. Her daughter, Gina Dineen, said the famed singer died ...