Joan Sutherland News

American mezzo-soprano Kate Aldrich plays Adalgisa in the Vancouver Operaa TMs anniversary productiuon of Norma.

These days, Vienna-based soprano Hasmik Papian is the go-to Norma, a truly operatic role that's had many legendary names associated with it.

Today is Saturday, Nov. 7, the 311th day of 2008 with 54 to follow. The moon is waning.

The ultra-operatic opera director Tito Capobianco is back in Philadelphia - but does anybody recognize him without Joan Sutherland in tow? Or without his spirited wife, Gigi, telling him his work could be better? Or without his eloquent, oft-repeated Freudian slips? All that is long ago and far away for the less glamorous but more committed version ...

Opera singer Joan Sutherland is 83. Singer Johnny Rivers is 67. Singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell is 66.

Dallas Opera WinspearInaugurated with a concert by Maria Callas, the Dallas Opera, then called Dallas Civic Opera, was one of the most prominent of numerous regional opera companies founded in the 1950s.

Soprano Joan Sutherland and conductor husband Richard Bonynge, who was a friend and client of Hawley.

Emma Matthews' debut CD has helped revive the fortunes of Australian classical music recording, reports Barney Zwartz.

Ira Siff's alter ego Madame Vera Galupe-Broszkh may be an over-the-top tribute to the opera world, but it hasn't stopped legends including Leontyne Price and Joan Sutherland from embracing the show.

Deborah Voigt, who was dropped from a Royal Opera House performance, she claims, for being too big for her costume.

Recent Conservative leaders haven't been obvious culture vultures. Margaret Thatcher was no friend of the arts, but she did inspire a generation of artists and designers who reacted so strongly against her that she could be said to have defined her cultural era.

For more than three decades, Emma Kirkby's refined, elegant singing has defined the sound of early music.

Is it possible to do Strauss's Die Fledermaus straight? No, judging by what we see in our opera houses.

There's the sextet, the greatest "hit" in all of opera when Caruso was in the cast, and there's the "Mad Scene," that exercise in vocal acrobatics that brought new glory to bel canto when the opera was new in Naples in 1835.

The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea has devised a suitably regal opening to the season at Opera Holland Park .

It's hard not to smile at the opening chords of God Save The Queen in Donizetti's rarely-performed opera about the terrible Tudors, Roberto Devereux, reminding us how different was the home life of the first Elizabeth.

During my formative years as a student at the Juilliard School , something happened that was to have an enormous influence on my ongoing musical development: the Metropolitan Opera's orchestra manager, Felix Eyle, put me at the top of his list of subs.