The voice types of opera can be confusing, even for professional singers. For centuries, the European classical music tradition has classified different opera voices into seven main categories, ...

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Nicholas Brownlee had just fallen in love with opera and was eager to see if his emerging bass-baritone voice could handle Richard Wagner’s music. It did not go well. “I kept reading how you have to ...

“The Other Side of Silence,” a new work in development, is experimenting with giving operatic voice to a text-to-speech synthesizer. By Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim Reporting from Troy, N.Y. The opera ...

— I echo most emphatically the Warning Voice lifted up by a member of the Club at our last meeting. When the German opera was first introduced into America, there was no limit to the enthusiasm of the ...

Puccini’s melodramatic opera, the middle opera of his “big three,” has returned to the Jubilee Auditorium to open the new ...

‘Contemporary opera needs to cater to contemporary times,’ says Harvard grad Benjamin Wenzelberg, whose new opera is based on James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’ and makes its world premiere in Cambridge this ...

Fitah Rasendrahasina plays a starring role in Opera Grand Rapids’ production of Giacomo Puccini’s “Manon Lescaut.” The Calvin College junior portrays Edmondo, a young student who is a friend to the ...