I have a couple of recommendable discs, one from a soprano, one from a pianist. The soprano is Nina Stemme, and she has made a Strauss CD, with Antonio Pappano and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera ...

Truly memorable concerts make their mark in different ways. Some blaze at you with their heat and light. They have come to dazzle. They find you in your seat and pin you there. Some pulse with a ...

The Swedish soprano Jenny Lind ruled as the first operatic superstar. In the 19th century, the celebrated “Swedish Nightingale” riveted audiences from the Americas to Europe, earning her admiration ...

Born May 17, 1918, Birgit Nilsson was an extraordinary Swedish soprano. I vividly recall Nov. 4, 1979. I was on my way to a study group, preparing for a statistics final at New York University. To ...

Berlin - Astrid Varnay, the Swedish-American soprano who made her Metropolitan Opera debut, without rehearsal, in a nationally broadcast performance and went on to sing for half a century, has died.

ROCK ISLAND -- The American Scandinavian Association at Augustana College will present soprano Christina Nilsson, who has been chosen as Sweden's Jenny Lind Scholarship winner for 2014, in a Midsummer ...

Astrid Varnay, 88, the Swedish American soprano who made her Metropolitan Opera debut -- virtually without rehearsal -- in a nationally broadcast performance and went on to sing for half a century, ...