One of the pleasures of a vocal recital is hearing the way the instrument changes and develops as it warms up. A piano’s timbre stays basically the same, but the voice that sings the first song on a ...

Ying Fang lives in the modern world most of the week, conserving her soprano voice with silence, stretching and sleep. Until it’s time to go onstage. Ying Fång lives in the modern world most of the ...

A young, mild-mannered soprano from Norway with a huge voice has been turning heads in the opera world. Not so long ago, Davidsen was a guitar-strumming, handball-playing kid from Stokke, a rural town ...

The voice types of opera can be confusing, even for professional singers. For centuries, the European classical music tradition has classified different opera voices into seven main categories, ...

Voice type is the classification system for a person’s singing voice based on vocal range, weight, timbre, and tessitura. The main voice types are bass, baritone, tenor, alto, mezzo-soprano, and ...

Samuel Mariño, a singer with a rare voice type in opera, is making his Decca album debut with a glimpse at a more gender-fluid future. By J.S. Marcus BERLIN — Samuel Mariño is a rarity in opera: a ...

Soprano Jane Eaglen is a generous artist and human being. So it did not come as a surprise to anyone in the music world that she would give a recital to benefit Bailey-Boushay House, in honor of its ...

When Mary Bonhag and her husband, Evan Premo, moved to Vermont from Red Hook, N.Y., in 2010, locals took notice. Both were good-looking, in their mid-twenties and finely trained as classical musicians ...