One of the pleasures of a vocal recital is hearing the way the instrument changes and develops as it warms up. A piano’s timbre stays basically the same, but the voice that sings the first song on a ...

Ying Fang lives in the modern world most of the week, conserving her soprano voice with silence, stretching and sleep. Until it’s time to go onstage. Ying Fång lives in the modern world most of the ...

The voice types of opera can be confusing, even for professional singers. For centuries, the European classical music tradition has classified different opera voices into seven main categories, ...

A young, mild-mannered soprano from Norway with a huge voice has been turning heads in the opera world. Not so long ago, Davidsen was a guitar-strumming, handball-playing kid from Stokke, a rural town ...

Voice type is the classification system for a person’s singing voice based on vocal range, weight, timbre, and tessitura. The main voice types are bass, baritone, tenor, alto, mezzo-soprano, and ...

Vocalist Nikan builds her international career at Curtis. In this episode of On Stage at Curtis, meet Nikan, a dynamic vocalist whose performances have taken her to stages around the world. A seasoned ...

Samuel Mariño, a singer with a rare voice type in opera, is making his Decca album debut with a glimpse at a more gender-fluid future. By J.S. Marcus BERLIN — Samuel Mariño is a rarity in opera: a ...