There can’t be too many women out there singing Wotan, but these days Lucia Lucas numbers Wagner’s flawed deity among her signature roles. One of a handful of transgender singers making increasing waves on the current operatic scene, … » Read

From Festival President Helga Rabl-Stadler: “Over the long period of more than 40 years, Jessye Norman managed to make each of her performances an event that radiated profoundly throughout daily life for a long time. These were not … » Read

NEW YORK (AP) — Jessye Norman, the renowned international opera star whose passionate soprano voice won her four Grammy Awards, the National Medal of Arts, and the Kennedy Center Honor, has died, according to family spokesperson Gwendolyn … » Read

The Met mourns the loss of Jessye Norman, one of the great sopranos of the past half-century. Starting with her Met debut as Cassandra in Berlioz’s Les Troyens on Opening Night of the Met’s centennial 1983–84 season, Norman sang … » Read

In the annals of the great Romantics, few embody the tensions among fame, fortune, and the pleasures of worldly love—and the contrasting desire to sublimate oneself in a straightjacket of religiosity—like Franz Liszt. The flamboyant … » Read

Tshombe Selby has made a professional leap that is the stuff of dreams. The 35-year-old tenor, whose "day" job is working as an usher at the Metropolitan Opera, finds himself on the opera house stage as part of the choral ensemble for the current … » Read

LONDON—There was a stirring in the bowels of Covent Garden this week as Irish composer’s Gerald Barry’s first opera received its first London airing since its inception almost three decades ago. It proved to be a trying … » Read

On September 26, high society and celebrity guests entered Lincoln Center’s David H. Koch Theater on a red carpet for New York City Ballet’s Fall Fashion Gala, an annual event pairing choreographers with couture designers to create … » Read

On Sept. 27 the 92 nd Street Y tapped Seth Pinsky as its new chief executive, beginning in January 2020. A former head of the Bloomberg administration’s economic development corporation, Pinsky succeeds Henry Timms, who was appointed … » Read

Martin Bernheimer, former staff music critic for the Los Angeles Times (1965-96) and longtime free-lancer for numerous outlets, died on September 29 in Manhattan. He was 83. His wife, theater critic Linda Winer, tells the Washington Post that he … » Read