Maria Ewing poses for a photographer in her costume as Melisande in the opera "Pelleas et Melisande." (Ira Nowinski/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images) Maria Ewing, a daring and original American ...

Acclaimed for her fearless performances in operas by Strauss and Bizet, Ewing also partly inspired Passing, a film written and directed by her... Maria Ewing, the opera singer acclaimed for her ...

She sought to incorporate acting techniques in her singing rather than settle for predictable staging. Uncertainty about her heritage inspired her daughter, the actress Rebecca Hall, to make the film ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. DETROIT (AP) — Maria Ewing, a soprano and mezzo-soprano noted for intense performances who became the wife of director Peter Hall ...

Opera singer Maria Ewing photographed on stage at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 1994 while she was singing the title role in Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, by Dmitri Shostakovich. "She was an ...

Maria Ewing, a multifaceted American mezzo-soprano known for the dramatic intelligence and intensity she brought to a broad sweep of parts on the world’s leading operatic stages, died Jan. 9 at her ...

DETROIT (AP) — Maria Ewing, a soprano and mezzo-soprano noted for intense performances who became the wife of director Peter Hall and the mother of actor-director Rebecca Hall, has died at age 71.

Maria Ewing, the opera singer acclaimed for her sensual, dramatically charged performances in works by Strauss, Bizet and Shostakovich, died at her home near Detroit on Sunday. She was 71. Her death ...