How Opera Became Music's Coolest Genre, From Rosalía and Charli XX To A New Opera About Kurt Cobain

When Rosalía released "Berghain", the lead single on her album, Lux, at the end of October, it is fair to say the pop world lost its mind. Performed with the London Symphony Orchestra, it showed an ...
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FM Opera singers share how opera illustrates the many emotions of the human experience

FARGO — If a night at the opera doesn’t sound as enticing as a night on the couch, then you should meet opera singers Julie Ly and Karly Ritland. They could well change your mind. “Opera often gets a ...
San Diego Reader

A guide to good opera singing

I’d say one of the greatest barriers to enjoying opera is knowing whether or not the singing is good. I’m being serious. It’s a problem for those who haven’t spent years studying voice or exploring ...
Opinion

The Metropolitan Opera’s vocal coach breaks down the difference between American and European performers

Derek Goff, a vocal coach for the Metropolitan Opera, told The Post’s Cindy Adams how he went from a farm to one of the world’s biggest stages.
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Grace Bumbry, Pioneering Black Opera Singer, Dead At 86

Grace Bumbry, an acclaimed mezzo-soprano, has died at age 86. According to her publicist David Lee Brewer, she passed away on Sunday (May 7) at Evangelisches Krankenhaus, a hospital in Vienna. She ...