Whether singing Carmen or Cherubino, mezzo sopranos are the versatile stars of opera. But what makes a mezzo a mezzo? Canadian-Irish opera singer Wallis Giunta introduces her voice part... In its ...

, whose purity of tone and brilliant vocal display made her one of the most celebrated opera singers of all time, has died at 83 after a four-decade career that won her praise as the successor to ...

Anita Rachvelishvili, the once-blazing mezzo-soprano, has struggled with vocal problems since her pregnancy two years ago. The mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili and her husband, Otari Maisuradze, at ...

Shakespeare has nothing to do with Bellini’s “I Capuleti e i Montecchi,” which is based on a different version of the Romeo and Juliet story. But let’s quote the Bard anyway: “O Romeo, Romeo, ...