Stutzmann gave up a quarter-century career as a contralto to become a conductor and makes her Metropolitan Opera debut in a new production of Mozart's "Don Giovanni" on Friday night.

Operatic contralto Cyrena van Gordon, from left, soprano Rosa Riasa and tenor Antonio Cortis, circa 1932. Opera star Rosa Raisa waves from a train platform in Chicago in the 1920s.

Few women have made a name in music as composers, fewer still as operatic composers. The only authoressed opera ever produced at the Metropolitan Opera House, Englishwoman Ethel Smyth's Der Wald, ...

While in London, Doctor McLean enjoyed several evenings of Carl Rosa’s operatic entertainments and fell into a swoony passion for Josephine Jones Yorke, the lovely contralto. He sent his regards and a ...

EWTN Operatic contralto and guitarist AnnaMaria Cavalli employs Spanish classical and flamenco guitar as she recounts the tumultuous history of San Miguel Mission in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and ...

Despite the excellence of the opening Samson et Dalila last week all was not well with Cincinnati’s Zoo Opera. Contralto Marta Wittkowska expertly bewitched her Samson who was Tenor John Sample.

Piedmont Center for the Arts hosting Festival Opera’s next show Sunday ‘American Song Cycles’ program to feature soprano Hennessey and pianist Lockert, then ‘Bel Canto Forever’ on Sept. 28 ...