September 2026 Dear Friends, The newsletter is a bit late this month. I write this in the Boston airport, where my flight home to RDU has been delayed seven hours. But it is not like any of you have never been through a flight delay! I am returning from two weeks in Italy, where I was on the faculty of a Young Artist Program (YAP) for OperAffinity in Todi. A YAP is part of any aspiring opera singer’s journey. They always take place in the summer, when the singer is not in sch