Opera Stories:  Reflections on a Career in Opera
Dominic Cossa, American lyric baritone and professor of voice, University of Maryland School of Music, College Park, Maryland

What is it like to be a professional opera singer?  Dominic Cossa will give us the inside perspective from his long and successful singing career including how it all started, what life on the road is really like, and a few stories about his famous and not-so-famous colleagues.  He will also sing some of his all-time favorite arias and songs including “Di Provenza” from La Traviata, “Pierrot’s Tanzlied” from Die Tote Stadt, and songs from Cole Porter’s Kiss Me Kate.