Last week we scaled the heights of the highest vocal range, the soprano. Today, let's take one step down the vocal ladder. In the opera house, we tend to call them mezzo-sopranos, but there are many ...

Once they were everywhere, mainstays of all the choral societies in the land, rousing us to action or soothing us with maternal balm. But now the contralto only seems to exist in the realms of the old ...

Just in time for spring break, First Coast Opera will stage Gilbert & Sullivan's The Mikado on March 20-21 in Lewis Auditorium at Flagler College. Nelson Sheeley returns to direct with longtime ...

When Marie Powers was five, an opera singer asked her what she wanted to be when she grew up. Said Marie: “I want to be fat, jolly and an opera singer like you.” Today, fortyish, buxom Marie Powers is ...

Celebrated contralto Maureen Forrester, who toured the globe giving concert tours and championed Canadian composers, has died at the age of 79. Her daughter, Gina Dineen, said the famed singer died ...