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The two singers married in 1952, but the pressures of their separate careers eventually forced them to part. Price was engaged to sing the lead for the National Broadcasting Company's production of Puccini's Tosca in 1955.

Amy J. Payne is a vivacious British mezzo-soprano who is amassing an interesting collection: glittering reviews. She’s being singled out for her performances, as in the comic opera Spinalba: “Particularly successful in both facets was Amy J.

"Nel giardin del bello" Don Carlo Fiorenza Cossotto is an Italian mezzo soprano. She is considered by many to be one of the great mezzo-sopranos of the 20th century.

Aiken Performing Arts Group (APAG) will bring one of the music world's best known opera singers, mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade, to Aiken on Thursday. Celebrated as.

Rawls as Manrico at the Bregenz FestivalTenor Arnold Rawls stepped in for an indisposed Marcelo Álvarez for the second half of this evening's performance of Il Trovatore at the Metropolitan Opera.

In Strauss' Ariadne, the opera must go on (but send in the clowns, too)Houston ChronicleYet the format is comparatively rare in opera. Ariadne auf Naxos, Richard Strauss' uniquely delectable opera-within-an-opera is a notable exception.

Voigt as Brünnhilde (Photo: Brigitte Lacombe)"One of Debbie’s close friends is Jack Doulin, a casting agent who Debbie met through his work with New York Theater Workshop.

Ettore Bastianini & Dmitri HvorostovskyWe can't be too surprised that Rigoletto is at the top of our poll of your favorite Verdi baritone roles. It's not only a great role for baritones, but one of Verdi's most skillfully developed characters.

The Lyric Opera of Chicago named Houston Grand Opera CEO Anthony Freud as its new general director Thursday, making him the first Lyric head appointed from outside the company ranks.

One of the many nude scenes from Baal in SydneyIn the opera world, most audiences wonder if the soprano singing the title role in Salome will bare all during the dance of the seven veils. Few have.

Chris Hondros (March 14, 1970 – April 20, 2011) "Conjure a combat photographer in your mind’s eye — fatigues, a whiskey flask and a fondness for rude pastimes. Now discard the cliché and conjure Chris Hondros of Getty Images instead.