Soprano Pretty Yende sometimes hankers after the climate of her native land. “The sun! I miss the sun!” the South African singer exclaimed when asked for what home comforts she felt nostalgic. If she ...

Had it not been for a random encounter with a British Airways television commercial when she was 16, soprano Pretty Yende might be crunching numbers in an office today rather than performing at some ...

NEW YORK (AP) — When Pretty Yende walked on stage for her Metropolitan Opera debut 21 months ago, she immediately fell for the audience. But not nearly as hard as the audience fell for her. The South ...

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What would it look like? The Bal d’Été at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris offered one example. By Vanessa Friedman “Grounded,” the new work that opened the season, has been joined by revivals ...

She hasn’t looked back, and to go with a beautiful voice that’s much richer than she or others first thought, a lyric soprano that can also cope with Sutherland-style coloratura, is a personality that ...

For years, Vocal Arts DC has been championing promising singers, such as the now-celebrated artists Renée Fleming, Thomas Hampson and Matthias Goerne. On Thursday night, the group put another winner ...