Growing up in South Africa, internationally celebrated opera singer Pretty Yende hadn’t even heard of opera until she was almost out of high school. Now, she’s hailed as one of her generation’s most ...

South African opera singer Pretty Yende, who has enjoyed a meteoric rise over the last years, has hit new heights in a Paris production of "La Traviata" where the heroine is a social media influencer ...

What would it look like? The Bal d’Été at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris offered one example. By Vanessa Friedman “Grounded,” the new work that opened the season, has been joined by revivals ...

Follow the young South African soprano's fairytale rise to fame in a travelogue of classic arias and scenes by Rossini, Delibes and Bellini. Note: NPR's First Listen audio comes down after the album ...

(AP) Preparing to exit the stage during the opening moments of Rossini’s Le Comte Ory at the Metropolitan Opera, Pretty Yende tripped on a couple of steps leading down from a wooden platform and fell ...

PARIS (AP) — South African opera star Pretty Yende said she was detained by French authorities, strip searched and held in a dark room at Paris’ main airport after arriving this week for a starring ...

The style that guides the creepiness, with an ominous fireplace central in Annemarie Woods’ pointedly chilly, unpretty designs, isn’t always there in the singing (Woods, incidentally, also designed ...