The Maria Callas of Terrence McNally’s Tony-winning play “Master Class” makes it clear to her Juilliard School students that an artist must suffer. “It’s not a note we’re after here,” she tells them. ...

As a schoolgirl in Parma, Renata Tebaldi used to imagine her dream man: he would have the voice of a Beniamino Gigli and the build of a Clark Gable. As she grew older, she developed a superb soprano ...

Long ReadDominique Meyer, the French director of Milan's opera, is due to step down in early March. He will be replaced by an Italian, as has been the case in many of the country's cultural ...

Renata Tebaldi Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (1 February 1922 – 19 December 2004) was an Italian lirico-spinto soprano popular in the post-war period, and especially prominent as one of the stars of La ...

One important aspect of wartime was the upsurge in interest in classical music. The outstanding image is of Dame Myra Hess playing the piano at lunch-time sessions in the City of London but there were ...

Lolita San Miguel celebrated turning 90 years old on Oct. 9. Undoubtedly, this birthday is an incredible milestone to hit — but the more you learn about Lolita, the more it becomes clear why she ...

Rudolf Bing, general manager of New York’s Metropolitan Opera Company, is not given to discussing his dreams, but it has been whispered that he is haunted by a recurring nightmare. In the dream he is ...

She is among the greatest opera singers of all time and her extraordinary voice continues to enchant audiences today, 50 years since her final public concert. Maria Callas was one of the first truly ...

The future arrived over the airwaves one night during Richard Dyer’s Oklahoma boyhood. He later recalled that “huddled over a radio, past my bedtime,” he heard for the first time “by delayed broadcast ...

The prestigious classical music publication, Gramophone, recently listed their 10 greatest Puccini singers of all time. There were a few omissions that raised my ire along with a few inclusions that ...

Jolie was feeling joie de vivre. On Thursday, Angelina Jolie got overcome with emotion during the Venice Film Festival, after her movie “Maria” got an 8-minute standing ovation. The Oscar-winning ...

Angelina Jolie shared a tender moment with a fan while promoting her upcoming biopic Maria at the 81st Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy on Thursday. The Girl, Interrupted star, 49, knelt down in ...