African American opera tenor George Shirley reflects on his trailblazing music career. As one of the first African American operatic performers, renowned tenor and trailblazer George Shirley’s ...

South African opera singer Pretty Yende, who has enjoyed a meteoric rise over the last years, has hit new heights in a Paris production of "La Traviata" where the heroine is a social media influencer ...

Soprano opera artist Loveline Madumo, one of the first black opera singers in South Africa, was first exposed to classical music by Bernard, her violin-playing brother. On weekends, Bernard — now part ...

THE OPERA SINGER offers audiences an intimate, sharply observed encounter with fame, artistry, and the fragile human being behind the public persona. Framed as an interview between a celebrated opera ...

When nine students and a music professor set off on a fundraising tour from Fisk University in Tennessee in 1871, they had no idea what lay ahead. They just hoped their talents as singers and the ...

Growing up in South Africa, internationally celebrated opera singer Pretty Yende hadn’t even heard of opera until she was almost out of high school. Now, she’s hailed as one of her generation’s most ...