NEW YORK -- Jordan Rutter-Covatto is professional countertenor based in New York City. People hearing him perform for the first time are sometimes taken by surprise, because his singing voice sounds ...

There is one voice — and one opera star — soaring particularly high this season. Countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo is leading music in new and thrilling directions as he brings his incredible voice ...

At an age when most American boys were hitting a baseball, Bejun Mehta was hitting high notes. A child prodigy, Bejun was singing his heart out and gaining fame. But fame was fleeting. His voice ...

Despite being one of the first and oldest forms of popular music, opera sometimes struggles to connect with 21st century audiences. However, Anthony Roth Costanzo is breaking down the genre's stodgy ...

In 1999, during the run-up to the premiere of John Corigliano's "Dylan Thomas Trilogy," the featured boy soprano experienced an unfortunate physiological event: his voice had changed. So 16-year-old ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with rising opera star and break dancer Jakub Jozef Orlinski, whose new album "Farewells" is a collection of Polish opera classics, little known to the rest of the world.

Shortly after Jakub Józef Orliński, a young Polish countertenor, made his début at the Aix-en-Provence Festival, in a 2017 production of Cavalli’s “Erismena,” he was celebrating with several other ...