NEW YORK (AP) — While singing on the world’s great stages, Nathalie Stutzmann thought about blond lager. “In Europe it’s very common to have the conductor getting a beer right backstage. I was so ...

Claramae Turner, an operatic contralto best remembered for her celebrated rendition of “You’ll Never Walk Alone” in the 1956 film ”Carousel,” died May 18 in Santa Rosa, Calif. She was 92. The Rodgers ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Margery Mayer, 96, a retired Wagner College music professor and renowned contralto who performed with the New York City Opera and many other famous musical groups, died May 12 ...

She will be the second woman to lead a major American orchestra. The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra has selected Nathalie Stutzmann, French operatic contralto and chief conductor of the Kristiansand ...

Renowned opera singer Gwendolyn Brown will perform as part of the Bethany Arts Series at 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 12, at Bethany Lutheran Church, 76 W. Crystal Lake Ave., Crystal Lake. Brown possesses an ...

When Contralto Margarete Klose sang in Jenufa at Berlin’s Municipal Opera, she performed excellently. But along with the applause came a shrill of whistles and a thicket of catcalls. It had just been ...