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 ...

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. Ewing died Sunday ...

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.

Ewing sang 96 performances for the Metropolitan Opera, including starring in director and then-husband Peter Hall's 1986 production of 'Carmen.' By The Associated Press Maria Ewing, a soprano and ...