In 1988 she went to Duke University, where she'd been recruited by the opera department.

Later she was choreographer for the opera department of the Federal Music Project.

The conductor Joseph Rosenstock led the opera department.

I worked for a semester with the head of the opera department, not a voice teacher.

He also served as assistant to Goldschmidt and coach in the opera department.

He was director of the opera department at Columbia University from 1942 to 1944.

She served on the faculty at the Curtis Institute of Music from 1970-1976, when the then opera department for which she primarily taught there was dissolved.

He founded the school's opera department and conducted orchestral and choral concerts there for 18 years.

He learned that the Russian tenor Vladimir Rosing was starting an opera department at the school.

The opera department won the National Opera Association's production competition in both 2004 and 2005.