With intriguing glimpses of vulnerability, there has been none better in this production since it was first mounted more than four decades ago ...

NEW YORK — Anna Netrebko must have felt enormous pressure Saturday at the Metropolitan Opera when for the first time anywhere she sang the title role of Puccini’s “Tosca.” This is a touchstone of the ...

PALM BEACH, Fla. — The stage was set, the chandeliers dimmed and the audience hushed. Then superstar Russian soprano Anna Netrebko, in a ruffled flamingo-pink gown and sparkling heels, made her ...

With her distinctive fashion sense and robust stage presence, it’s hard to imagine Russian soprano Anna Netrebko working as a janitor at Saint Petersburg’s historic theater of opera and ballet, The ...

Russian soprano Anna Netrebko returned to the Royal Opera House in Puccini’s Tosca, starring in the eponymous role - Alastair Muir/amx If the Royal Opera had aimed to open their new season in a blaze ...

Anna Netrebko is back, briefly. The star soprano, whose links to Russia have made her a controversial booking in some ...

Five years ago, Anna Netrebko unveiled her take on Verdi's Lady Macbeth at the Met and wowed audiences from here to eternity. She showed that this kind of role, in this composer's work was where she ...

Demonstrators outside the Royal Opera House protested the Russian soprano’s return to the London stage in a new production of “Tosca.” By Alex Marshall The company’s director, Oliver Mears, talks ...

There isn't a musical instrument on earth that can produce sounds as varied, as beautiful, and as heart-rending as the voice of a woman. That's why we worship our great sopranos, and call them divas.

The verismo era flourished a little more than a century ago, when composers like Giacomo Puccini, Umberto Giordano and Alfredo Catalani crafted an operatic style melding elements of Wagnerian harmony ...

The Metropolitan Opera in New York City announced Thursday that soprano Anna Netrebko, a Russian star and one of the Met's marquee artists, will not appear there in upcoming months, due to her failure ...