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The following year McNally won the Tony again for Master Class, his portrait of opera diva Maria Callas.
I cannot emphasise too strongly the vocal results of this disc from two accomplished divas of this order.
And with a soprano taking the role, rather than a mezzo-soprano, for once the two divas were equals in their fireworks.
The opera diva could accent a single word, like ‘ma’ in Rosina's aria in The Barber of Seville.
Why would one of opera's most acclaimed divas take a major musical risk?
This is the story of Emma Albani, a woman from Chambly, Quebec who rose to become one of the late 19th century's greatest opera divas.
In 1851 the famed diva Jenny Lind, known as the Swedish Nightingale, sang at the Academy of Music opera house in Northampton, Mass.
How distant those days of divas and arias must seem now as he watches the clouds gather over the Cuillins.
Lieberson gets her own diva showcase at the Met later on this season, as Dido in Berlioz's Les Troyens, and I can't wait.
Perhaps our diva should have listened more carefully to her colleagues in this La Traviata and learned something from them.
Some of this singing is a little more operatic than it needs to be, but America's embrace is broad enough to hold the diva, the heldentenor, and more besides.
‘In 1870, the diva of the opera house had the presence and effect of David Beckham, Madonna and Kylie Minogue all rolled into one,’ says Driver.
One of Cuba's most celebrated divas will stop off in Cork and Dublin next weekend.
Baker, not ordinarily thought of as a dramatic singer, shows most opera divas how to act with the voice.
In those days, each operatic diva had fiercely partisan fans.