>>> The upcoming Blackhawk Chamber Music Festival presented a unique challenge to artistic director Jeffrey Cohan. The repertoire had to be chosen around the vocal range of mezzo soprano Vivien ...

In 2012, I commented on a performance at the Salzburg Festival—a performance of Handel’s opera Tamerlano, in concert. I wrote, “There was a mezzo-soprano, previously unknown to me: Marianne Crebassa, ...

Seeing as the Minnesota Orchestra’s music director, Thomas Søndergård, established much of his European conducting reputation in the opera house, it’s appropriate that he should open the orchestra’s ...

Award winning mezzo-soprano Marianne Cornetti hails from the USA, but as an artist she is thoroughly international. Having appeared in major opera houses from the Met to Vienna to Rome to Brussels and ...

Director: Richard Maltby, Jr. Lyrics: Richard Maltby, Jr. Choose a song you feel shows you as a person as well as a performer, showing vocal and emotional range in the style of Maltby and Shire.

The community is invited to take a walk in faith with Frederick resident Tracie Luck as the mezzo soprano returns to the Weinberg Center for the Arts stage for a musical journey through life’s darkest ...

If you’re going to have friends over for dinner, Sasha Cooke says, you have to give them a meal with balance. “You can’t give them all meat and potatoes, nonstop,” she said. “You’ve got to have ...

A Metropolitan Opera mainstay, she sang some 680 performances of more than 50 roles there, often in starry casts. She made her Broadway debut at 82. By Anthony Tommasini Rosalind Elias, an American ...