' It's about old men who get it wrong when they have power and influence – and then get into a mess. That's the reason I'm doing this opera." Alexander Goehr is telling me about Promised End, his new ...

This Feb. 1978 black-and-white handout photo provided by the Kennedy Center shows, from left, Evelyn Lear as Irina Arkadina, Patricia Wells as Masha, and Evelyn Petros as Nina in Pastieri’s The ...

This year’s Grange Festival will feature King Lear with a difference – the cast is made up of opera stars who won’t sing a note. But are there any parallels to working on an opera? George Hall gets ...

Evelyn Lear, an American soprano who became a preeminent interpreter of contemporary opera and enlivened the international stage with her commanding portrayal of characters she called “neurotic modern ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — American soprano Evelyn Lear, who became an opera star in Europe singing some of the most difficult contemporary roles before returning to the United States, has died. She was 86.