"I was a childhood opera singer. And then I ended up quitting opera very dramatically when I was 14, because I was having panic attacks every time I performed," she explained to the judges. "Now, ...

It is a cold Tuesday morning, and William Madsen has just arrived at the end of his commute. Each weekday he leaves his home in Maplewood, N.J., an affluent town of 24,000, for nearby Newark. The ...

Learning to sing opera has changed the life of Linda Collazo. The Hunts Point native has performed at Carnegie Hall three times, and now she's hoping music will help change the lives of children in ...

It was one of the first warm Monday evenings of the year, and in a sunlit hall at First Parish in Brookline, Boston Lyric Opera head of music Brett Hodgdon was giving 35 young singers from VOICES ...

BEIJING, Nov. 14, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Tender voices of young phoenixes resound in the Liyuan world, passing on century-old melodies from generation to generation. The new voices of young phoenixes ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. In 1949, choreographer Jerome Robbins phoned Leonard Bernstein with an idea for updating “Romeo and Juliet” into a ...

America's Got Talent contestant Avalon Penrose, who introduced herself as someone who sang opera in her childhood, brought chaos — and fun — to the stage. "I was a childhood opera singer. And then I ...