The very first time mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe ever sang in an opera, she was a 17-year-old college freshman at Potsdam State University in New York. The opera was Giacomo Puccini’s “Gianni ...

North Carolina Opera will welcome internationally acclaimed mezzo-soprano Taylor Raven as the featured guest artist for the 2026 North Carolina Opera Gala.

Greek National Opera has invited viewers to take a journey behind the scenes at the opera thanks to a dedicated Mezzo Backstage programme presented by Mezzo, the international opera and classical ...

J'Nai Bridges was a star athlete with multiple basketball scholarship offers -- but she was feeling a pull toward music. Bridges is gifted with a rich, powerful singing voice -- a mezzo soprano, ideal ...

NEW YORK – J’Nai Bridges was just 24 and still in school when she sang her first “Carmen” as a young artist at the Glimmerglass Festival in 2011. “I was, oh, way too young,” she recalls with a laugh. ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Listen to the warm, rich sound of Marilyn Horne, Janet Baker, Grace Bumbry and more. In the past we’ve chosen the five minutes or so we would play to ...

Shakespeare has nothing to do with Bellini’s “I Capuleti e i Montecchi,” which is based on a different version of the Romeo and Juliet story. But let’s quote the Bard anyway: “O Romeo, Romeo, ...

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.

IN opera, sopranos cough out their last breaths, and tenors are left sobbing over their lifeless bodies. But mezzo-sopranos? They're more like the Christian crusader fighting the heathen outside ...

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 ...

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