It's so tough to break in to opera that when you finally do get start getting gigs, you don't easily let them slip away. Soprano Stafford Hartman didn't let a shooting and a robbery erase her opportunity to sing in Puccini's Tosca with Opera Memphis. Three days after being robbed, Hartman sang in the production from a wheelchair. Here's the story on Memphis television, WREG.
Jennifer Hambrick unites her extensive backgrounds in the arts and media and her deep roots in Columbus to bring inspiring music to central Ohio as Classical 101’s midday host. Jennifer performed with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Civic Orchestra of Chicago before earning a Ph.D. in musicology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.