"I was a childhood opera singer. And then I ended up quitting opera very dramatically when I was 14, because I was having panic attacks every time I performed," she explained to the judges. "Now, ...

Learning to sing opera has changed the life of Linda Collazo. The Hunts Point native has performed at Carnegie Hall three times, and now she's hoping music will help change the lives of children in ...

It is a cold Tuesday morning, and William Madsen has just arrived at the end of his commute. Each weekday he leaves his home in Maplewood, N.J., an affluent town of 24,000, for nearby Newark. The ...

It was one of the first warm Monday evenings of the year, and in a sunlit hall at First Parish in Brookline, Boston Lyric Opera head of music Brett Hodgdon was giving 35 young singers from VOICES ...

BEIJING, Nov. 14, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Tender voices of young phoenixes resound in the Liyuan world, passing on century-old melodies from generation to generation. The new voices of young phoenixes ...

America's Got Talent contestant Avalon Penrose, who introduced herself as someone who sang opera in her childhood, brought chaos — and fun — to the stage. "I was a childhood opera singer. And then I ...