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, ...

John Holiday spent the first two months of this year in Los Angeles. He wasn't expecting to spend the last one here too, but as we've learned, 2020 has left few plans unchanged. Which is why Holiday ...

Nicholas Brownlee had just fallen in love with opera and was eager to see if his emerging bass-baritone voice could handle Richard Wagner’s music. It did not go well. “I kept reading how you have to ...

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“The Other Side of Silence,” a new work in development, is experimenting with giving operatic voice to a text-to-speech synthesizer. By Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim Reporting from Troy, N.Y. See more ...

A few years ago, composer Matthew Suttor was exploring Alan Turing’s archives at King’s College, Cambridge, when he happened upon a typed draft of a lecture the pioneering computer scientist and World ...

‘Contemporary opera needs to cater to contemporary times,’ says Harvard grad Benjamin Wenzelberg, whose new opera is based on James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’ and makes its world premiere in Cambridge this ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bass-baritone Nicholas Brownlee portrays Wotan, second left, as he is surrounded by cast members portraying Wotan's Valkyrie ...