Angela Gheorghiu

Soprano Angela Gheorghiu has pulled out of the first six performances of the Metropolitan Opera s new production of Bizet s Carmen, which opens New Year s Eve. The Richard Eyre staging was designed around... More »

Angela Gheorghiu and Jonas Kaufmann, Madama Butterfly (EMI) This umpteenth studio recording of Giacomo Puccini s tearjerker is built around Romanian soprano Angela Gheorghiu, but it s her co-star, Jonas... More »

At the end of Giacomo Puccini s La Rondine, an enamored woman jilts her ardent but poor lover, saying she can t give up her old life as a rich man s mistress. And, she says, she doesn t want to financially... More »

Soprano Angela Gheorghiu was fired from her role as Mimi in La Boheme by the Lyric Opera of Chicago on Friday, the latest in a string of flare-ups that have marked her brilliant but tempestuous career... More »

Soprano Angela Gheorghiu faced a challenge of operatic proportions: playing a young woman who s ecstatic to have found her long-lost father — with undertones of incest. Her father really likes... More »