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 ...

Madame Ernestine Schumann-Heink, a world famous operatic contralto, weighed in on women’s rights – and women’s appearances – prior to her concert in Walla Walla. “Let them dance, but let them be ...

Renowned opera singer Gwendolyn Brown will perform as part of the Bethany Arts Series at 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 12, at Bethany Lutheran Church, 76 W. Crystal Lake Ave., Crystal Lake. Brown possesses an ...

Nuala Willis, witty contralto who ranged from Glyndebourne to Dustin Hoffman’s film Quartet She was a stalwart of the composer Jonathan Dove, appearing in his 2002 television opera about the death of ...

Claramae Turner, an operatic contralto best remembered for her celebrated rendition of “You’ll Never Walk Alone” in the 1956 film ”Carousel,” died May 18 in Santa Rosa, Calif. She was 92. The Rodgers ...

When Contralto Margarete Klose sang in Jenufa at Berlin’s Municipal Opera, she performed excellently. But along with the applause came a shrill of whistles and a thicket of catcalls. It had just been ...

Cincinnati’s very own Josie Jones enjoyed a solid operatic career in England while enduring widely reported but largely unsubstantiated rumors in America. Musicians, especially singers and especially ...