Pittsburgh Festival Opera has announced the winners of the 10th Annual Mildred Miller International Vocal Competition, Mezzo-Soprano Edition. This is the 10th year of the event that celebrated the ...

This May, Opera San José will play host to the nation's next generation of opera stars during its Irene Dalis Vocal Competition, named for the internationally-acclaimed mezzo-soprano who founded Opera ...

She didn’t leave on a high note. The Metropolitan Opera booted the best mezzo soprano “on the planet” once she struggled to hit her high notes, the singer claims in a Manhattan Federal Court lawsuit.

The very first time mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe ever sang in an opera, she was a 17-year-old college freshman at Potsdam State University in New York. The opera was Giacomo Puccini’s “Gianni ...

Mildred Miller Posvar, a Rust Belt singing sensation who soared to stardom on some of the world’s biggest opera stages before finally alighting in Pittsburgh, where she coached voice for decades, ...

NEW YORK — The mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton, who won the Metropolitan Opera’s Beverly Sills Artist Award this year and recently received accolades for her portrayal of Adalgisa in the Met’s production ...

Did you know that, in 1961, years before the passing of the Civil Rights Act, President John F. Kennedy appointed a Black woman from Madison, North Carolina to the National Music Committee? Many ...

Hawaii Opera Theatre (HOT) is thrilled to announce the highly anticipated return of mezzo-soprano Alice Chung in the title role of Bizet’s Carmen, opening on Friday, April 11th, 2025, at the Neal S.