It was over 30 years ago that the Romanian soprano Angela Gheorghiu first sang Puccini’s consumptive heroine Mimi at Covent Garden. Reinforced a couple of years later by her deeply affecting Violetta ...
Angela Gheorghiu, as renowned for her diva temperament as for the Callas-like intensity of her performances, has not sung at the Met in four years. But she is a real star, and her presence, as Mimì, ...
One of today's reigning opera divas needn't rely on a long-gone legend to help sell records. Angela Gheorghiu's Callas Comparisons Angela Gheorghiu's Callas Comparisons Angela Gheorghiu's Callas ...
Angela Gheorghiu drew criticism after she stormed onstage to stop a tenor’s encore during a performance of “Tosca” in Seoul. By Javier C. Hernández The strong-willed singer, returning in “Tosca,” was ...