NEW YORK (AP) — While singing on the world’s great stages, Nathalie Stutzmann thought about blond lager. “In Europe it’s very common to have the conductor getting a beer right backstage. I was so ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Key events in the life of pioneering contralto Marian Anderson, whose name replaced Verizon on the Philadelphia Orchestra on Wednesday: Feb. 27, 1897 — Born in Philadelphia. Early ...

Just in time for spring break, First Coast Opera will stage Gilbert & Sullivan's The Mikado on March 20 and March 21 in Lewis ...

“Oh là là! I’m actually living my dream,” said conductor and contralto Nathalie Stutzmann. “My two biggest goals in life were to be a singer and a conductor, and I am just living my dream.” Nathalie ...

When Marie Powers was five, an opera singer asked her what she wanted to be when she grew up. Said Marie: “I want to be fat, jolly and an opera singer like you.” Today, fortyish, buxom Marie Powers is ...