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University of South Dakota opera program raises its voice

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Tracelyn Gesteland is a professor of voice and opera at the University of South Dakota. USD stages a full-scale opera with an orchestra each spring. Gesteland didn't encounter opera until her late 20s, when she pursued a master's degree in vocal performance.

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University of South Dakota opera program raises its voice

VERMILLION, S.D. – Tracelyn Gesteland was an ambitious opera teacher and vocalist when she arrived at the University of South Dakota in 2008, firmly aware of the irony of her entrance.If she was going to make her mark in perhaps the most metropolitan and exclusive of the cultural performing arts, why was she in the heart of the Great Plains, with not an opera set in sight?“I had come from Chicago and Houston, which had very vibrant arts scenes,”…

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