“When I heard about [the Hall of Fame induction], I couldn’t believe it,” Lawrence said. “To be recognized is beyond an honor.” But the honor is no surprise to those in the singer’s orbit. Lawrence ...

Opera folk use the expression “park and bark.” This denotes an old-fashioned kind of acting in which singers take up a fixed position onstage, “park” there and sing, the implication being that opera ...

Peter Benecke sang his way through life. A well-known private voice teacher in Sonoma County, Benecke, who also had a decades-long career as an opera singer, usually portrayed a despicable, awfully ...