It went through several iterations, being renamed once before becoming the Opera House in 1920. It's also been used for different functions; as a cinema in WW2, then a bingo hall before reopening as a ...
Rebecca's mother is American opera singer Maria Ewing, who made her professional debut in 1970. Maria met Sir Richard in 1978 with the pair bonding over their similar mindsets on operatic productions.
On the whole, opera singers hate switching back and forth between speech and song, and it can feel a bit hard for non-German audiences to adapt to. But if you can get over that, the delights more ...
I knew from an early age I was a singer, and would sing often at home. It wasn’t until high school, however, that I discovered opera, and started studying classical singing. Before discovering ...
Even after 20 years of learning Cantonese opera, 31-year-old Thompson Vong Seng-pan is still a newbie. Most other performers are middle-aged. But he understands why younger generations are not ...
Billboard counts down the best country acts of the past (almost) 100 years. Ever since Ralph Peer held his famous recording sessions in Bristol, Tennessee in the late 1920s with such acts as ...
Focusing on early to mid-20th-century painters, “Radiant Impressions” considers the ways artists have engaged with light not only for its optical qualities, but also for its power to convey meaning, ...