Contralto Lili Chookasian, who sang with the Metropolitan Opera for 24 years, died Tuesday. The former Tenafly, N.J., resident was 90. Chookasian was a 41-year-old mother of three in March 1962 when ...

Last week we scaled the heights of the highest vocal range, the soprano. Today, let's take one step down the vocal ladder. In the opera house, we tend to call them mezzo-sopranos, but there are many ...

Once they were everywhere, mainstays of all the choral societies in the land, rousing us to action or soothing us with maternal balm. But now the contralto only seems to exist in the realms of the old ...