Amanda Gorman, a Los Angeles native and the United States' first National Youth Poet Laureate best known for her poem "The Hill We Climb," took to social media Saturday to express her condolences ...

Jan. 16, 2025 Here is some of the greatest, most practical advice I’ve heard on how to start reading poetry: “A poem is best read in the light of all the other poems ever written. We read A ...

The tone is lush and luscious; her high pianissimi simply beautiful. Her 'Ritorna vincitor' was ideal, expressing Aida’s inner turbulence as well as her devout supplication, and the long lines of 'O ...

Verdi wrote the opera to celebrate the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, though it didn’t actually have its premiere, in Cairo, until 1871 and, a year later, at La Scala in Milan, where it was ...

“Padre mio” in “Ritorna vincitor” made harsh false tones from their high E and C sharp. Performing in her middle range, Pirozzi was occasionally able to imbue her syllables with pathos: “vincitor dei ...