Leonard Bernstein called her “The Bible of Opera.” Yves Saint Laurent once said she was the “Diva of Divas.” The critics gave her the nickname of “La Divina” or “The Divine One.” But in the new film ...

This story was written as part of the WTOP Book Report series authored by Terik King. Read more of that coverage. In the high-drama world of opera, where talent clashes with ambition and passion ...

Florentine Opera's new double bill is a musical office comedy that gently lampoons the act and art of putting on an opera — or doing anything else with creative, ambitious, temperamental people, like ...

ATHENS, Oct 25 (Reuters) - From a sample of her hair to a blue velvet dress she wore after the memorable 1955 performance of Verdi's La Traviata in Milan's La Scala, visitors to Athens can now marvel ...

In one of the most amusing sketches performed by the always hilarious drag troupe La Gran Scena Opera Company di New York back in the 1980s, a centenarian diva clambered up from the auditorium to the ...