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This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. The Metropolitan Opera in New York has lost its Siegfried for its costly ...

Calgary Opera's General Director and CEO, Keith Cerny, Ph.D., is delighted to announce distinguished Canadian tenor and broadcaster Ben Heppner, O.C., LL.D., as Honorary Chair of Calgary Opera's new ...

Opera singers endure merciless scrutiny. Their every onstage phrase and movement are parsed with Talmudic rigor — a situation the Internet has only intensified. Their body weight and emotional health ...

THOMASVILLE — Thomasville Entertainment Foundation kicks off 2008 with Ben Heppner, tenor, accompanied by Craig Rutenberg on the piano Jan. 15. “I’ve never been to Thomasville,” Heppner said in a ...

What goes around, comes around. Tenor Ben Heppner is replacing Jay Hunter Morris in the San Diego Opera’s West Coast premiere of Jake Heggie’s “Moby-Dick.” In making his company debut, Heppner will ...

“Out of the strong came forth sweetness” — the biblical tag might not be a bad description of what happened in McCaw Hall on Thursday evening. In town to serve as judge and conductor respectively for ...

Ben Heppner's recital Wednesday night at Benaroya Hall represented vocalism at once sweet and sophisticated, suave and straightforward. There were many levels of nuance and subtlety throughout the ...

NEW YORK (AP) - Ben Heppner has withdrawn from the Metropolitan Opera's new production of Wagner's Ring Cycle. The Met said Tuesday that the Canadian tenor had retired the role from his repertory. Met ...

of Wagner's "Ring" Cycle because he "has retired the role from his repertory," according to a Met spokesman. The Los Angeles Times' blog has the story. Heppner, 55, was to sing the role of Siegfried ...

When the Dallas Opera debuted Jake Heggie’s Moby-Dick, in 2010, there was no question as to who had to pioneer the role of the central character, Ahab. Heggie had written a tremendously difficult role ...