In voice, artistic sensibility and glamour, the singer was every inch a diva.
The beloved concert and opera singer died earlier today.
The mixture of romance and realism in Sondheim songs, the revelation that while love could be grand and passionate it could also be mundane or inconvenient or mistimed or just plain embarrassing, was such a relief.
Steve adored puzzles, solving them and creating them, so it makes you wonder that this one continued to fester—was that so few of his songs attained the rank of “standard.”
The master of Broadway musical theater died suddenly earlier today at his home in Connecticut.
In the month and a half leading to Bernard Haitink’s passing on October 21, my AirPods constantly channeled a musical festival of sorts centered on the Dutch giant’s expansive discography.
The Slovak soprano, whose career spanned more than 50 years, died yesterday in Zurich. She was 74.
In tribute to the late Graham Vick, a full-scale production of Rossini’s opera seria from the 2019 Pesaro Festival.
American soprano Gianna Rolandi died Sunday morning, according to a number of her friends and colleagues. She was 68.
April is the cruelest month, the song tells us—but this year, it was a week later. Ghenady Meirson, Philadelphia’s master of Russian Opera and coach extraordinaire, died on May 8.
The renowned interpreter of Wagner, Mozart and Strauss for more than four decades died yesterday.
We all lost a great champion of the arts as news arrived that Lois Kirschenbaum passed away on 27 March at the Beth Israel hospital.
The conductor and former music director of the Metropolitan Opera died on March 9.
Nathan Hull was an operatic Quixote who did not go it alone, but inspired bands of optimists, giving proper employment to the many worthy New Yorkers mad enough to study voice and pleasure rare elsewhere to those of us thrilled to take it in.
Critic Martin Bernheimer has died. He was 83.
A multibillionaire right-winger—best remembered locally for plastering his name on the once-beloved New York State Theater at Lincoln Center—has died.
The legendary opera and film director has died. He was 96.
The distinguished British soprano died today. She was 88.
The prodigiously gifted and widely beloved Catalan soprano has died. She was 85.
The actress and teacher died earlier today of lung cancer. She was 83.
The Queen of Soul has died.
We have just heard the sad news that author and longtime Opera News editor Brian Kellow died earlier today. He was 59.
he mezzo-soprano died on April 21. She was 79.
The versatile singer and actress died yesterday at her home in Palos Verdes, Calif. She was 97.
Tell us: What was the best of 2025?
Parterre Box concludes the thrilling first year of Talk of the Town by inviting your lightning rod opinions on several more categories of operatic argumentation.
