Because there were few opportunities for Black singers in the U.S., she became a powerhouse in Europe, performing in operas like “Tosca” and “Carmen.”

A link to France’s first golden age of cinema, she drew international attention for a 1947 film that created a scandal in France and was...

Battling the government for more than three years, he was able to prove that the Nixon White House was trying to deport the former Beatle...

A master of American choral music, she wrote arrangements of hymns, folk songs and spirituals used in concert halls and churches countrywide.

As leader of opera companies in Santa Fe and St. Louis, he welcomed new works as well as new artists.

In her 23 years at the Met, she sang with the greatest stars of her day. She had a second career as a leading figure...

He helped define cinema as high art for generations of moviegoers and filmmakers in France and beyond, even if he irked some of them with...

Immersed in his native land’s repertoire — Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev — he drew bold, rich sounds from the world’s major orchestras. In Russia, he was...

Shuttling between Europe and the United States, he conducted the world’s great orchestras. He was music director of the New Jersey Symphony for 11 years.

There was just a dirt road and a boarded-up motel in 1964 when he first saw the area at the southern tip of Nevada that...