They met in the early 1970s at Indiana University. Sitting on the floor, Lisa Paglin was reviewing some sheet music for her piano class. “Marianna, already a great opera singer fresh from New York, wrapped in an elegant coat and high heels, approached me to ask about Margaret Harshaw’s classroom,” recalls the retired soprano and co-founder of the New Voice Studio.
After that first meeting, they never lost touch. “Lisa became a star at the Vienna State Opera,” Marianna Brilla recounts over the phone. “But, like me, she began to feel that something in her technique wasn’t working, that her voice wasn’t responding as it should.”
