' It's about old men who get it wrong when they have power and influence – and then get into a mess. That's the reason I'm doing this opera." Alexander Goehr is telling me about Promised End, his new ...

This Feb. 1978 black-and-white handout photo provided by the Kennedy Center shows, from left, Evelyn Lear as Irina Arkadina, Patricia Wells as Masha, and Evelyn Petros as Nina in Pastieri’s The ...

Lyric Opera of Chicago joins the rest of the international operatic community in mourning the death of the legendary American soprano Evelyn Lear, whose career was one of the most varied and ...

Can Shakespeare’s epic “King Lear” find new life as an opera set in a present-day care center for the mentally afflicted? Or, even more provocatively, as an opera in which Lear is re-cast as a female ...

WASHINGTON (AP) – American soprano Evelyn Lear, who became an opera star in Europe while singing some of the most difficult contemporary operas before returning to the U.S., has died. She was 86.

This year’s Grange Festival will feature King Lear with a difference – the cast is made up of opera stars who won’t sing a note. But are there any parallels to working on an opera? George Hall gets ...

"Where am I? Is it day? I don’t know what to say. Are these hands mine? How I long to know who I am!" - Lear, Partie II, scène 6 Berlioz wrote nothing more than an overture to Shakespeare’s King Lear.

WASHINGTON (AP) — American soprano Evelyn Lear, who became an opera star in Europe singing some of the most difficult contemporary roles before returning to the United States, has died. She was 86.