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Anne Sofie Von Otter Serves Up Two Sides of French Song
"The love of Sweden's most famous singer for the French language is well known. Anne Sofie von Otter performs this album with exceptional sensitivity and intelligence. Von Otter's successful journeys...
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Nicole Car Wins Neue Stimmen Vocal Competition In Germany
"Australian soprano Nicole Car has won joint first prize in Germany’s Neue Stimmen vocal competition. She takes home 15,000 euros. The American soprano, Nadine Sierra was the co-winner amongst the...
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Highly Fashionable Opera Divas On The Cover Of A Magazine
Kathleen Battle (Japan, 1992)Barbara Hendricks (Paris, 1987)Anna Netrebko (Russia, 2012)Renée Fleming (USA, 2005)It's pretty typical to find opera sopranos gracing the covers of industry magazines in...
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Is Sabine Devieilhe France's Next Big Coloratura Soprano?
Can Sabine Devieilhe carry thetorch of Janine Micheau, Mady Mesplé, Lily Pons and Natalie Dessay?"Sabine Devieilhe née le 12 décembre 1985 à Ifs est une soprano française. Après des études de...
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At 61, Dolora Zajick Proves Still Explosive As Verdi's Amneris
(Photo: Lynn Lane)"....volcanic-voiced American mezzo Dolora Zajick, the reigning international interpreter of Amneris, who could sing this role in her sleep. Her voice is one of the wonders of the...
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Dame Kiri Te Kanawa To Celebrate Big Birthday With Tour Dates
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa in full-on Dynasty modein this portrait from September 1982."Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, one of the world’s greatest ever voices, will tour Australia in 2014 to mark her 70th birthday...
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Nedda Casei Ready To Leave Sutton Place Home For $5.5 Million
"This seven-room apartment on the top floor of 16 Sutton Place is a little jarring at first glance, but begins to make sense, somehow, once you consider that it belongs to famous mezzo-soprano Nedda...
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Freshest Idea That Makes Opera Look Pretty Cool
Declaring "Where the opera is grand & so is the style," photographer Rose Callahan displays some pretty high-fashion (not to mention several beautiful) audience members attending Benjamin Britten's...
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Renée Fleming Appears On Joshua Bell Holiday Disc
With Musical Gifts, world-renowned violinist Joshua Bell imagines friends coming to his home during the holiday and joining in on songs that celebrate the warmth, beauty and magic of the season....
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Huntress Lead Singer Jill Janus Is Former Coloratura Soprano
Jill Janus seems ready-made forLucia di Lammermoor, but prefers the Heavy Metal scene instead."There's a lot to love about Huntress, and it's not just because frontwoman Jill Janus is gorgeous, bad-ass...
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Vinson Cole Could Have Been A Contender Says Carol Vaness
At home with the tenor Vinson Cole (Photo: Jim Marcus/Kansas City Star)"...native Kansas Citian Vinson Cole, is better known by opera fans in Europe (and mid-to-large American cities) than in his home...
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Purchase Aprile Millo Rendition Of Famous Hymn On ReverbNation
The heavenly voice of soprano Aprile Millo captured in hymn. (Photo: Christian Steiner)Listen to operatic soprano Aprile Millo give a heart-swelling interpretation of the hymn "Nearer, My God, to Thee"...
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Kathleen Battle Continues Alicia Keys Collaboration In New York City
Alicia Keys (left) with Kathleen Battle in 2008 after performing together at the Black Ball.Opera star Kathleen Battle has been working alongside popular songstress Alicia Keys since 2007 to help raise...
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Coven Chooses Opera Over Jazz On American Horror Story
Based on an historical figure, a murderous musician who hides an axe inside his saxophone case declares to the citizens of New Orleans that he will spare their life if they are playing jazz music...
View ArticleLisette Oropesa Loses Weight The Old Fashioned (Healthy) Way
Special thanks to Opera Chic for pointing out this great feature on soprano Lisette Oropesa's journey to a healthy lifestyle! Be sure to check out another story done last year about her running by...
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Alfred Brendel's Island Has Daniels, Jurinac & Fischer-Dieskau
Alfred Brendel chooses his top 8 "Desert Island Discs" for the BBC. Among them are David Daniels interpreting "Al lampo dell'armi quest'alma" from Handel's Giulio Cesare, Sena Jurinac singing...
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American Studies: Dorothy Kirsten And Patricia Racette
Two American divas that forged careers singing the same celebrated roles of Violetta in La traviata, Madame Lidoine in Dialogues of the Carmelites, Mimì in La bohème, Micaëla in Carmen, Nedda in...
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Christine Goerke Celebrates Dramatic Voice Change
Goerke is all smiles after a four-year absencefrom the MET stage, she will return inWagner during the 2018-19 season."The change, when it came, took her by surprise. 'I noticed it during the run of...
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Sylvia McNair Takes Gershwin Tour Back On The Road
"Music and lyrics by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin, ‘Here to Stay’ is the multimedia concert event celebrating the greatest team of collaborators in the history of American music. ‘Here to Stay’...
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