Music Director Eun Sun Kim and the San Francisco Opera Orchestra went back to Beethoven for their fall concert, which also ...

San Francisco Opera takes a breather from its regimen of presenting full-fledged and lavish operatic productions to let Music Director Eun Sun Kim shine a solo spotlight on her instrumentalists in ...

For the first time ever, Houston Grand Opera has mounted a full presentation of Puccini's trio of one-act operas.

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 ...

Catherine Cook came to the Bay Area in 1990 to participate in the Merola Opera Program, then returned the following year as an Adler Fellow. And she never left. For nearly a quarter of a century, the ...

Have you ever read one of those “Choose Your Own Adventure” books for children? Written in second person, they allow a reader to make decisions that change the direction of the plot, the next chapter ...

This Sept. 11, 2018 photo released by The Metropolitan Opera shows mezzo-soprano Elina Garanca as Dalila in a scene from Saint-Saens' "Samson et Dalila" at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. A new ...

SAN JOSE — Irene Dalis, the beloved Grande Dame of the South Bay arts scene who reached the lofty heights of international stardom as a mezzo-soprano opera star before returning home to found Opera ...

On this week’s episode of Working, June Thomas spoke with mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton. They discussed all the expenses soloists have to cover, opera singers’ peculiar schedules, and shopping for gowns.

At just 23, Canadian mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo winning the 2018 Operalia Competition in September carries particular weight. The annual voice competition, founded by famed tenor Placido Domingo, is ...

This summer has thrown Heather Johnson back to her teenage years. She's living at her parents' White Bear Lake home, hanging out with old high school friends and soaking up some sun. ¶ And when her ...