Few singers in recent years have beguiled San Francisco audiences as instantly as Alice Coote. The English mezzo-soprano bowed brilliantly at the San Francisco Opera in 2002 as Ruggiero in "Alcina" ...

Since then she has become a global star of opera, albeit one for whom concert recitals are equally important. She was forced to take a year off in 2003 when she suffered a haemorrhage of the right ...

Alice Coote: singing of rare and exquisite quality undermined by bizarre stage props The point, if such a crude thing could emerge from such uniformly ravishing music, was that passion, sorrow and ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. The opera stars Sophie Koch (Feb. 8-20) and Alice Coote (Mar. 4-13) in the ...

“Filling the city with song” is the motto of the remarkable Leeds Lieder Festival, founded in 2004 and growing in significance with each passing year. The great soprano Elly Ameling is the Festival’s ...