On the stage of Milan’s La Scala one evening last week, Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, mused about the futility of wealth and power. The aria, Oh! de’ verd’anni miei, got hearty applause. After the ...

Whenever there is a tough baritone part to be sung these days, the call is likely to go to a modest 42-year-old Texan named Mack Harrell. In his 15 years as a professional, he has sung such ...

Baritone Lucas Meachem has come a long way since his training days as an Adler Fellow at the San Francisco Opera. At 38, he’s taken mainstage roles at the War Memorial Opera House in works by Mozart ...

As a child, Will Liverman would listen to cassette tapes from the 1980s and 1990s that his mother had produced in which she sang her own gospel tunes. Those moments are some of his earliest musical ...

Call it stereotyping, but the truth is occasionally we’ll see a pairing of musician and instrument we don’t expect. We’d be surprised, for example, to find a burly, hulking guy playing a piccolo. We’d ...