José van Dam, an award-winning Belgian bass-baritone opera singer who created the title role in Olivier Messiaen’s “Saint François d’Assise,” has died at age 85, a Belgian conservatory announced ...

This month in Tulsa, Okla., opera singer Lucia Lucas made her U.S. debut. She also made history. At the Tulsa Opera, Lucas sang the title role in Mozart's Don Giovanni. Mozart's character is a ...

Celebrated Greek baritone George Iatrou will join the stage of the Hamburg State Opera for the much-anticipated revival of John Neumeier's ballet "The Odyssey". The ballet, inspired by the Homeric ...

Not many people have a severed head of themselves, let alone one they bring to the workplace. But that's exactly what bass-baritone opera singer Mark S. Doss is doing this week in Houston as he takes ...

Opera baritone Brian Major is going to the movies and you're invited. Major, a Neptune native, is featured with wife Michelle Johnson in the Holiday Encores: At the Movies! program, Saturday, Aug. 30 ...

Todd Payne’s voice has cadence. He speaks at a rapid-fire pace, creating sentences that are fluid yet punctuated by words delivered with emphasis, like drum beats. That should be no surprise – his ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - Jose van Dam, center, appears during a rehearsal of Olivier Messiaen's opera "Saint François d'Assise" at the ...

FILE - Jose van Dam, center, appears during a rehearsal of Olivier Messiaen's opera "Saint Franois d'Assise" at the Felsenreitschule in Salzburg, on Aug. 12, 1998 ...