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 ...