Awadagin Pratt: This is an interesting question because musicians primarily tend to analyze when listening, which raises the bar for getting to what are the more normal primal responses. The most ...

Donna Anna in Mozart’s Don Giovanni is a bit of a bore, and audiences can understand why the Don is trying to get away from her. She sings matchlessly beautiful music, but the range of her emotions is ...

The soprano was the daughter of a Negro carpenter from Laurel, Miss. The tenor was the son of a naval engineer from Ancona, Italy. Together on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera last week, Leontyne ...