Acclaimed Georgian composer Giya Kancheli has died at the age of 84. A well-known theater and film scorer-- Kin-Dza-Dza!  (1986) and  Pasport  (1990), to name a few—he composed more than 37 orchestral pieces, 10 chamber music … » Read

Anne-Sophie Mutter’s appearance on Sept. 28 was billed as one of the highlights of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra’s (CSO) 125 th anniversary season. Mutter, one of the world’s great violin virtuosos, had appeared only once … » Read

Lyric FM, the Limerick-based classical music radio station, is in danger of being shuttered by its owner, Ireland’s public-service broadcaster Raidio Teiligis Eireann (RTÉ). According to Dee Forbes, the company’s … » Read

The late Herbert Kuperferberg was assigned in 1981 by Musical America to write a profile of Jessye Norman at the height of her career. She was the 1982 Musician of the Year yet her Metropolitan Opera debut was still one year away. A soprano who … » Read

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