For the record, there is a new overcoat. When you are reimagining one of the country’s most beloved theatre works as an opera, it’s only fitting to reinvent its central costume piece—the flowing ...

Anthony Rolfe Johnson, an Englishman who began his professional life as a farmer and ended it as a distinguished lyric tenor who had performed to glowing notices in the world’s most storied opera ...

Having ploughed a career as a farmer, he was 29 when he first took music lessons. Once his abilities had been unearthed he turned out to be a singer of enormous vocal depth and emotional range who ...

2 Exclusive: Washington National Opera Forges Ahead Following Kennedy Center Split Opera singer Anthony Rolfe Johnson died on July 21 at the age of sixty-nine, The New York Times reports. Johnson, who ...

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Of course - I'd completely forgotten that over 20 years ago, tenor and mezzo collaborated in John Eliot Gardiner's pioneering Queen Elizabeth Hall concert performances of Mozart's Idomeneo and La ...