If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. From fights onstage, to leaving mid-production, opera divas have more than earned their moniker. Morgan Richter, author of 'The ...

It seems only natural that the first production staged at 825 Arts, a 1915 silent-film theater in St. Paul that reopened this month as a modern theater venue, would be “Divas & Drag” — and Monday, ...

Leonard Bernstein called her “The Bible of Opera.” Yves Saint Laurent once said she was the “Diva of Divas.” The critics gave her the nickname of “La Divina” or “The Divine One.” But in the new film ...

Opera Orlando’s latest concoction in their OperaX series in conjunction with Judson’s — an attempt to create approachable, cabaret-scale “bite-sized opera samplers” for neophytes and devotees alike — ...

Call it a confluence of divas. Before it devolved into a pejorative for someone who can be arrogant and difficult, diva was the Latin word for “goddess” and customarily was applied to a magnificent ...

Running time: 123 minutes. Rated R (some language including a sexual reference). In some theaters. Near the end of “Maria,” 53-year-old Maria Callas, the opera diva stunningly played by Angelina Jolie ...

For nearly a decade, those two warring soprano queens, Maria Meneghini Callas and Renata Tebaldi, have dominated the world of European (and U.S.) opera, leaving other postwar singers to peep about to ...

GENEVA (AP) — Famed for her beauty that matched her serene voice, Swiss-born diva Lisa Della Casa swept up crowds at opera houses of the past century with an elegant and radiant style that established ...

It seems only natural that the first production staged at 825 Arts, a 1915 silent-film theater in St. Paul that reopened this month as a modern theater venue, would be “Divas & Drag” — and Monday, ...

(Reuters) - Australian opera diva Joan Sutherland has died aged 83. One of the great sopranos of the 20th century, Sutherland is ranked with Maria Callas as the most important female influences on ...