This piece of classical music — it's "Lascia Ch'io Pianga" from Handel's opera "Rinaldo" being performed in Amsterdam — has an unusual twist: That's a soprano you hear singing. But the name of this ...

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Listen to the soaring voices of Maria Callas, Jessye Norman, Leontyne Price, Renée Fleming and others. In the past, we’ve asked some of our favorite artists to choose the five minutes or so they would ...

Patti Smith is an inspiration to musicians and poets around the world. However, even the most inspirational music legends have inspirations of their own. For the “Gloria” hitmaker, that inspiration ...

Soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian hopes to give voice to her Armenian ancestors Isabel Bayrakdarian sings the Canadian national anthem during the closing ceremonies of the 2015 Toronto Pan Am Games at ...

Thomas Meehan and Marc O’Donnell, book; Marc Shaiman, music; Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, lyrics; Marc Robin, exec. artistic prod. (Fulton Theatre); Curt Dale Clark, artistic dir.(Maine State Music ...

Regine Crespin, the French opera great who took her personal magnetism and soprano voice to the world’s leading stages, died Thursday. She was 80.Crespin died at Paris hospital, her record company EMI ...

Big Auntie sits in the parlor listening to French art songs on the phonograph. They sound, she says, “a little like the cha cha cha.” Past the veranda of the one-story. frame house runs South Fifth ...

Whether you want to belt it out onstage, onscreen, or via home recording, knowing your voice type and vocal range will help you land roles in voiceover, theater, film, and TV. Identify your voice type ...