This week, on Saturday afternoon, Manhattan’s Metropolitan Opera will loop heavenward its new $13,000 gold curtain, revealing an inner curtain painted like a picture book. On the book is a likeness of ...

A MUM claims she nearly fainted with astonishment when her six-year-old daughter revealed she was the reincarnation of a famous opera singer. Dorothy Angelica recalled vivid details of her “past life” ...

The life and times of Baltimore opera diva Rosa Ponselle, who would have turned 100 this year, was recalled recently with the release of a U.S. postage stamp. Also included in the release of famous ...

Alice Joséphine Pons, known professionally as Lily Pons, was a French-American operatic soprano and actress who had an active career from the late 1920s through the early 1970s. As an opera singer she ...

The soprano who can trill for a quarter of a century on the coloratura’s high and skittish vocal trapeze is a notable rarity; this musical generation has Lily Pons. At an age (about 48) when most ...

A packed house at the Mount Dora Center of the Arts on Saturday listened to a lecture about Lily Pons and a recital by former Miss Florida Kristen Ludecke. Pons, the opera legend, who started her long ...