Nigel Perrin, who has died aged 76, was an agile countertenor with a beautiful clean line and an infectious personality who did much to define the character, sound and style of the King’s Singers in ...

I clearly remember when you could count the working countertenors on the fingers of one hand. Now you can hear nearly as many in a single Baroque opera production. Against all odds, the challenge for ...

When John Holiday sings Vivaldi’s aria “Ah, ch'infelice sempre” (Ah, how unhappy always), as he did with the Academy of Ancient Music in a 12th century church in London, he’s singing about loneliness, ...

A revival of Handel’s “Giulio Cesare” this summer at Glyndebourne, an English opera festival, features three countertenors with three different sounds. By David Belcher It’s a good time to be a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Washington National Opera continued another long-standing holiday tradition at the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater on Tuesday ...

Both of these performances bring the same artistry, the same complete investment of soul and self, the same devastating power of authentic expression that activates our own emotions, our memories of ...