Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Although she'd become the most desirable woman on the planet, no one wanted Norma Jeane Mortenson when she was little. Born the ...

Great operas need great leading ladies, and one of the pleasures of being a New York critic is hearing how they develop their roles over time. The big news at the Metropolitan Opera is that Bellini’s ...

The emotive lyricist and surefooted improvisor sounds lustrous in a 1990 recording featuring an exquisite I Loves You Porgy ...

Bellini's opera Norma is often regarded as the pinnacle of the bel canto period, when the virtuoso potential of the human voice stood unchallenged as the expressive centre of the medium. Its title ...

With earthy and arresting harmonies, The Watersons from Hull – originally Norma Waterson and her siblings, Lal and Mike Waterson and their cousin John — revived old English folk songs beginning in the ...