This recital spotlights Hankey in a performance of Dichterliebe (A Poet's Love) by Robert Schumann, a set of 16 songs composed by Schumann in response to his separation from his bride, Clara. This ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Hankey shares, "After having postponed this recital for over 2 years, when ...

Mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung was a latecomer to opera. While many singers start training in their teens, she was 20. “I was a little behind, it’s true,” DeYoung says from New York City where she was ...

If you’re going to have friends over for dinner, Sasha Cooke says, you have to give them a meal with balance. “You can’t give them all meat and potatoes, nonstop,” she said. “You’ve got to have ...

Her command of the long lines of Mahler's songs, and the immediacy and understanding she brought to Lieder generally placed her in the very top flight of interpreters alongside Dietrich ...

We wish her a very happy birthday (a young Fassbaender left as Octavian with silver rose). SEBASTIAN SCOTNEY: You have described your decision to stop singing as “not wanting to grow old on stage”.