A great new Madama Butterfly hardly seems possible. Hasn't the opera been done so much that there's nothing new to discover? Haven't all the great Italian Puccini sopranos, from Renata Tebaldi to ...

Since then she has cemented her reputation as one of the world’s great sopranos. Unsurprisingly, her Australian debut performance was keenly anticipated. Like Renee Fleming, another recent soprano ...

Unless, that is, the soprano is Angela Gheorghiu, the raven-haired Romanian they used to call La Draculette. As well as being a superb singing actress with a sensuously expressive soprano voice, ...

To hear them tell it, some operatic sopranos seem destined for stardom from their first breath. So it comes as no surprise when Romanian soprano Angela Gheorghiu declares over the phone, “I never ...