Opera wouldn’t be opera without doomed heroines, obsessive love, weeping choruses — and crazy, self-aggrandizing divas. Soprano Angela Gheorghiu, the self-appointed deity of the operatic stage, ...

Angela Gheorghiu drew criticism after she stormed onstage to stop a tenor’s encore during a performance of “Tosca” in Seoul. By Javier C. Hernández The strong-willed singer, returning in “Tosca,” was ...

It was over 30 years ago that the Romanian soprano Angela Gheorghiu first sang Puccini’s consumptive heroine Mimi at Covent Garden. Reinforced a couple of years later by her deeply affecting Violetta ...

Puccini’s “Tosca” is about the collision of primal forces: love, jealousy, the brutal power of church and state. Pretty much any production is packed with drama. But Thursday’s San Francisco Opera ...

Unless, that is, the soprano is Angela Gheorghiu, the raven-haired Romanian they used to call La Draculette. As well as being a superb singing actress with a sensuously expressive soprano voice, ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Soprano Liudmyla Monastyrska will sing the title role in Puccini's Tosca on April ...

Comparing yourself to a legend is rarely a good idea, and in the case of soprano Angela Gheorghiu, whose new album is a tribute to the late Maria Callas, it's frustratingly inappropriate. The two ...

The performance had begun with a bright canter through Leonard Bernstein's Candide overture, with the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by the soprano's fellow countryman Ion Marin, but it must have ...

Since then she has cemented her reputation as one of the world’s great sopranos. Unsurprisingly, her Australian debut performance was keenly anticipated. Like Renee Fleming, another recent soprano ...