NEW YORK — Denyce Graves has star power to burn, and she uses every watt of it to light up an otherwise dreary Metropolitan Opera revival of Bizet's "Carmen." The mezzo-soprano — looking ravishing and ...

No one would characterize mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves’ rise to the top ranks of the operatic world as a bed of roses. It’s clear when you talk with her that she sometimes questions the physical and ...

Harry T. Burleigh, who transformed Black spirituals into concert songs, presided over a landmark event that featured the singer who originally played Bess in “Porgy and Bess.” By James Barron Symone ...

Denyce Graves seemed taken aback by the question: "Are you happy with where you are now?" "Wow," she proclaims, then announces, "No." Why? you ask. "I'd like to do different operatic roles. I'm known ...

Full color photograph of American mezzo-soprano opera singer, Denyce Graves, wearing a pink and black satin flamenco-style designed by Donna Langman for Act IV in the Washington National Opera's ...

Did you know that, in 1961, years before the passing of the Civil Rights Act, President John F. Kennedy appointed a Black woman from Madison, North Carolina to the National Music Committee? Many ...

Alexa Smith: Hello. I'm Alexa Smith. On tonight's show, we have singers from The Denyce Graves Foundation’s Shared Voices Program. You'll hear music from Handel, William Grant Still, Adolphus ...

One night early in the COVID-19 pandemic, the Baltimore County-based opera singer Denyce Graves had a conversation with a student that left her badly shaken. “She was really very angry with me,” ...