In the English-speaking world the art form is in a perennial battle for hearts and minds. Two contrasting books from either side of the Atlantic ask why ...

South African opera singer Pretty Yende, who has enjoyed a meteoric rise over the last years, has hit new heights in a Paris production of "La Traviata" where the heroine is a social media influencer ...

(AP) Preparing to exit the stage during the opening moments of Rossini’s Le Comte Ory at the Metropolitan Opera, Pretty Yende tripped on a couple of steps leading down from a wooden platform and fell ...

In fact it was one of the genuine encores which told us why Yende is already so much in demand at the Met – Pamina, Lucia, Adina and Rosina are in prospect there, according to the programme - and by ...