mezzo

Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, a thrillingly personal artist already ranked as one of the greatest of all mezzo sopranos, died from cancer 20 years ago this month at age 52.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

Twenty years after the superb mezzo soprano’s death, Harmonia Mundi has reissued a compilation of her recordings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

Here, mezzo Simona Genga displayed an impressively large, imperfectly controlled instrument.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

I was mezzo mezzo on a trade for Karl-Anthony Towns and I was whatever Italians say that’s less than mezzo mezzo about the giant trade for Mikal Bridges.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

"Be a famous mezzo, of course," I say.

From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper

“The Exterminating Angel,” also starring sopranos Amanda Echalaz and Sally Matthews, mezzos Alice Coote and Christine Rice, tenor Joseph Kaiser, countertenor Iestyn Davies and bass John Tomlinson, will be shown starting at 12:55 p.m.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 14, 2017

Heggie patterned the role to fit one of America’s favorite mezzos, Joyce DiDonato, who was said to have been terrific in Dallas. 

From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2016

Among the well-cast lesser roles, the soprano Micaëla Oeste and the mezzos Brenda Patterson and Cynthia Hanna stood out as Diemut’s gossipy girlfriends.

From New York Times ● Dec. 18, 2013

Though the role was written for soprano, it is often taken by mezzos, and Leonard matched her rich lower register with secure high notes.

From Seattle Times ● May 6, 2013

Instant visions of dazzling sopranos, of mezzos and contraltos, of angelic voices and of vast beauty and exquisite gowning, had flashed in appalling procession before her mental vision.

From The Making of Bobby Burnit Being a Record of the Adventures of a Live American Young Man by James Montgomery Flagg