Maria Ewing poses for a photographer in her costume as Melisande in the opera "Pelleas et Melisande." (Ira Nowinski/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images) Maria Ewing, a daring and original American ...

Maria Ewing, a soprano and mezzo-soprano noted for intense performances who became the wife of director Peter Hall and the mother of actor-director Rebecca Hall, has died at age 71. Ewing died Sunday ...

Maria Ewing, a daring and original American mezzo-soprano, known for risk-taking roles and an unwavering dedication to her art, died at home outside Detroit. She was 71. The cause was cancer, ...

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DETROIT (AP) — Maria Ewing, a soprano and mezzo-soprano noted for intense performances who became the wife of director Peter Hall and the mother of actor-director Rebecca Hall, has died at age 71.