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Adjunct Assistant Professor of voice.  Soprano.  BM  Kent State University, Opera Diploma  Curtis Institute of Music, Special Graduate Studies  Indiana University. Major voice professor, Margaret Harshaw.  Vocal Studies with Donna Pegors.  Winner of the San Francisco Opera Auditions (1980), Metropolitan Opera Auditions (1981), and National Opera Institute Grant (1981).  Has been singing professionally for 26 years leading roles in most of the world’s prestigious opera houses including The Metropolitan Opera, The Royal Opera Covent Garden, The Vienna Staatsoper, The Salzburg Festival, La Fenice in Venice, The Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, San Francisco Opera, The Bayrische Oper Munich, Theatre du Chatalet in Paris, L’Opera du Rhin in Strasbourg, Geneva Opera, Monte Carlo Opera, Frankfurt Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Dallas Opera, Canadian Opera, Seattle Opera, Santa Fe Opera, New York City Opera, and many others.  A famous interpreter of Queen of the Night (Die Zauberflöte), she sang 192 career performances of that role.  Other roles include title roles of Norma, Lucia di Lammermoor, Semiramide, Baby Doe, as well as Violetta in La Traviata, Mimi in La Boheme, Donna Anna and Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, Countess in Nozze di Figaro, Elettra in Idomeneo, Giunia in Lucio Silla, Amenaide in Tancredi, Constanze in Entführung aus dem Serail, Gilda in Rigoletto, Amalia in I Masnadieri.  Orchestral appearances include “Live From Lincoln Center” TV with Mostly Mozart Festival in New York, PBS- TV Broadcast with Boston Pops Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, New York Chamber Orchestra, Opera Orchestra of New York at Carnegie Hall, The Berkshire Choral Institute, Buffalo Philharmonic, Richmond Symphony, Boston Baroque, Palm Beach Master Works Chorale, and New Jersey Symphony. Performed with conductors Bernard Haitink, Julius Rudel, Donald Runnicles, Armin Jordan, Gerard Schwartz, Eve Queler, Klaus Donath, Sylvain Cambreling.  Faculty, Westminster (2001-present).