Ruth Ann Swenson News

Hot on the heels of the sold out, critically acclaimed Summer Season 2008, Opera New Jersey announces that internationally-renowned opera star Ruth Ann Swenson will star in their February 2009 production of Die ...

The San Francisco Opera House rang with especially loud cheers Sunday afternoon July 6 as a vigorous Napa Valley contingent watched their home-town girl, the internationally acclaimed soprano Ruth Ann Swenson, ...

The San Francisco Opera House rang with especially loud cheers Sunday afternoon July 6 as a vigorous Napa Valley contingent watched their home-town girl, the internationally acclaimed soprano Ruth Ann Swenson, ...

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Little more than a year ago, Ruth Ann Swenson was onstage at New York's Metropolitan Opera, transforming herself into the character of Marguerite, a woman who goes mad, kills her baby, is forgiven and taken to ...

Susan Graham, playing the role of "Ariodante," performs a scene with Ruth Ann Swenson, playing the role of "Ginevra," during the San Francisco Opera's dress rehearsal of George Frideric Handel's "Ariodante." ...

Opera's myriad components all must click to deliver the promise of a performance, but to reach the point of exuberant celebration, you need a great star, someone who stops the critical mind, even time itself.

Three world-famous graduates of San Francisco Opera 's Merola Program returned to the War Memorial on Sunday to head a seven-performance run of Handel's 1735 "Ariodante." Mezzo Susan Graham in the title role ...

You don't have to be a singer these days to drop out of a Metropolitan Opera production because of illness. via New York Times

With the flu season taking a heavy toll on opera stars, it is boom time for debuts at the Metropolitan Opera . via New York Times