It’s no surprise that Matteo Bocelli, the son of legendary Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli, chose music as a career path. But even though he grew up in a house filled with music, the elder Bocelli was ...
The opening scenes of attending an opera are standard. Storming applause announces the conductor’s assumption of his post at the front of the pit. A grand curtain rises to reveal a dazzling set, and a ...
Hakeem Henderson was barely old enough to walk when he began carrying around a blue toy microphone. It was clear even then what his future career would be. In September, the 26-year-old Baltimorean ...
When we say the winter music calendar has everything we are barely exaggerating. The season has multiple Pixies-related projects, Huey Lewis covers, century-old operas, rising pop stars, and New ...
Surrounded by a lifetime's worth of globe-trotting photographs, glimmering awards and glamorous gowns, including an elegant Japanese kimono, Leona Mitchell couldn't help but feel a little overwhelmed.
This spring, Portland Opera checks in to the Overlook Hotel. The company is taking a big artistic swing and staging The Shining, an opera composed by Paul Moravec with a libretto by Mark Campbell, ...
With her emotion-evoking operatic range and soprano heights, Dominican opera singer Zuly Inirio is challenging whose voice is embodied and heard throughout the genre. She first saw an opera — “La ...