To lovers of art song who built record collections during the first flowering of the LP era, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (1915-2006) was the consummate interpreter to whom all other lyric sopranos were ...

Where does she go from here? More than 10 years into a little-noticed operatic career, German soprano Anja Kampe struck gold this month in the Washington Opera's production of Richard Wagner's "Die ...

Though every German soprano worthy of her breastplate has sung the role of the Marschallin in Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier, other singers keep a respectful distance. The Marschallin’s notes are within ...

Americans have heard German Soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf in everything from Bach’s B Minor Mass to Lehar’s The Merry Widow—on records. But, except for scattered concerts, they have not heard her in ...

German soprano Hildegard Behrens, a mesmerizing interpreter of such touchstone dramatic soprano roles as Wagner's Brunnhilde and Strauss' Salome during the 1980s and early '90s, died Tuesday in Tokyo.

TOKYO (Reuters) - German soprano Hildegard Behrens, best known for her roles in Wagner and Strauss operas, has died in a Tokyo hospital aged 72, an official at the Kanshinetsu Music Society Foundation ...

The German soprano was a mesmerizing interpreter of touchstone dramatic soprano roles during the 1980s and early ’90s. By Anthony Tommasini “Tristan und Isolde” has long been a magnet for trouble. By ...

NEW YORK (AP) — At an age when many singers are beginning to wind down their careers, Evelyn Herlitzius is making a splash with debuts in U.S. opera houses on both coasts. For more than two decades ...