This umpteenth studio recording of Giacomo Puccini’s tearjerker is built around Romanian soprano Angela Gheorghiu, but it’s her co-star, Jonas Kaufmann, who really makes the listener sit up and take ...

Angela Gheorghiu drew criticism after she stormed onstage to stop a tenor’s encore during a performance of “Tosca” in Seoul. By Javier C. Hernández The strong-willed singer, returning in “Tosca,” was ...

Concerts of opera excerpts with orchestra are the three-ring circuses of the classical music world. Singers in an array of glittering gowns perform operatic highlights out of context, interspersed ...

One of today's reigning opera divas needn't rely on a long-gone legend to help sell records. Angela Gheorghiu's Callas Comparisons Angela Gheorghiu's Callas Comparisons Angela Gheorghiu's Callas ...

The album, recorded with renowned pianist Vincenzo Scalera, features 17 songs composed by Puccini between 1875 and 1919, including the world premiere recording of the recently rediscovered Melanconia.

It was over 30 years ago that the Romanian soprano Angela Gheorghiu first sang Puccini’s consumptive heroine Mimi at Covent Garden. Reinforced a couple of years later by her deeply affecting Violetta ...

NEW YORK (AP) - Angela Gheorghiu is out of the Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Gounod’s “Faust” that shifts the opera to the 20th century, another cancellation in a tempestuous career following ...

She calls herself ‘the world’s most glamorous opera star’, and always knew that her destiny was to be on stage. Can the Romanian diva possibly live up to her reputation? You bet … ‘I like to say,” ...

Even if you want to avoid the word “diva,” the word inevitably attaches itself to Romanian soprano Angela Gheorghiu. True, she began her recital Sunday at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica with dainty, ...

Comparing yourself to a legend is rarely a good idea, and in the case of soprano Angela Gheorghiu, whose new album is a tribute to the late Maria Callas, it's frustratingly inappropriate. The two ...

Comparing yourself to a legend is rarely a good idea, and in the case of soprano Angela Gheorghiu, whose new album is a tribute to the late Maria Callas, it's frustratingly inappropriate. The two ...