To hear Virginia Zeani sing — thank God for YouTube! — is to be catapulted back to a time when the earth was well-populated with hugely gifted operatic sopranos whose partisans made the case for their ...

A noted Violetta in Verdi’s “La Traviata,” she was “a woman blessed with beauty both physical and vocal,” Plácido Domingo said. By Jonathan Kandell Virginia Zeani, a Romanian soprano with a brilliant, ...

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When Dialogues of the Carmelites opens at the Long Center Saturday night, the Austin Lyric Opera production will have just one degree of separation from the very first staging at La Scala in 1957.

A concert featuring soprano Elizabeth Caballero and celebrating opera diva Virginia Zeani’s 90th birthday will be held Thursdayat Nova Southeastern University Art Museum in Fort Lauderdale. Zeani, now ...

If studio recordings were all we had to rely on, the sound of Virginia Zeani’s voice might fade from memory. Only a few were made during her 35-year career as one of the most admired sopranos in opera ...

Virginia Zeani, who has died aged 97, was one of the great bel-canto sopranos of the mid-20th century; known for her dramatic intensity and the supple nature of her voice, she made her name as Verdi’s ...

Virginia Zeani, a Romanian soprano with a brilliant, powerful voice and striking looks who overcame childhood poverty and the perils of war to become a fixture on the opera stage, died Monday in West ...

Virginia Zeani, a Romanian-born soprano who had an esteemed career in Italy and the United States and was internationally known for the versatility and dramatic intensity of her performances, died ...