José van Dam, who has died aged 85, was a Belgian bass-baritone known for his smooth voice, self-effacing nature and old-school manners; in 1998 he was ennobled by King Albert II of the Belgians as ...

Houston Grand Opera's audiences will soon be hearing a lot from bass-baritone Ryan McKinny. He plays one of the most powerful roles in Italian opera, the tormented jester at the center of Giuseppe ...

NEW YORK (AP) — He opened the season as kindly Uncle Paul in the Metropolitan Opera premiere of Terence Blanchard’s “Fire Shut Up in My Bones.” Next night he was the vagabond monk Varlaam, stopping ...

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Variety aplenty -- considerably more than one might have anticipated -- materialized in Nicholas Isherwood’s recital for unaccompanied solo voice Wednesday night on the three-part One at a Time series ...

Davóne Tines has love on his mind. The night before our Zoom chat, the tall bass-baritone tells me that he went on a fantastic dinner date at a steakhouse in Vail, Colo., where he was performing at ...

Otto Edelmann, 86, whose dark bass-baritone propelled him to some of the world’s most renowned opera stages in a singing career spanning more than four decades, died Wednesday evening in Vienna, the ...