Springfield native opera singer Michael Spyres accepted a monumental industry award this week. The International Opera Awards recognized Spyres as the Male Singer of the Year during its annual gala at ...

Countertenors — male opera singers who can sing very, very, very high — were a rarity when David Daniels came along. Now, nearly 20 years later, the American-born Daniels says countertenors are ...

Until the mid-nineteenth century, opera was wedded to rhythm and rhyme. Librettists supplied composers with heaps of verse for arias and other vocal numbers, alongside chunks of prose recitative that ...

Marking his debut with the San Francisco Opera during its summer season has been Reginald "Reggie" Smith Jr. The gay black baritone Houston resident has been performing as Count Monterone in the ...