DETROIT (AP) — Maria Ewing, a soprano and mezzo-soprano noted for intense performances who became the wife of director Peter Hall and the mother of actor-director Rebecca Hall, has died at age 71.

Maria Ewing, the opera singer acclaimed for her sensual, dramatically charged performances in works by Strauss, Bizet and Shostakovich, died at her home near Detroit on Sunday. She was 71. Her death ...

Ewing, who was biracial, is the mother of actress and “Passing” director Rebecca Hall. American opera singer Maria Ewing has passed away at age of 71 after suffering from a ‘brief illness’. The singer ...

This is a finely tuned opera with music by the Italian composer, Claudio Monteverdi, libretto by G. E. Busenello, and the fine voices of contralto Maria Ewing, baritone Dennis Bailey, and several ...

Tannhauser, a German Opera by Richard Wagner, four-hours in length with three intermissions, follows the story of a man facing a moral dilemma: virtuous love with the virgin Elisabeth, or profane ...

In this legendary production, director John Dexter and designer David Reppa brilliantly captured the stark drama of Poulenc’s only full-length opera, which tells the story of a group of nuns caught in ...