If she has the voice of an angel, and the face of an angel, she must be an Angel. Angel Blue, that is. The American soprano, one of the most admired singers of her generation, is headlining the ...

At 9 years old, Aida Ade heard the violin for the first time. She had just moved with her family from the north side of St. Louis city to Ferguson-Florissant. In this unfamiliar, nearly all-white ...

Muscatine vocalist Allyson Peniston was 4 years old when she first discovered the multi-faceted tones of opera. “I thought, ‘Oh my gosh, I want to sing like that,’” she recalls. “I’d imitate that ...

Anais Aida has lived everywhere from Senegal to San Francisco, but the stage is the only place that feels like home. Once the introverted singer plants those long stems down before a crowd, she opens ...