Mary Hagopian, associate professor and voice sub-area coordinator at Ball State University has been teaching for the past 20 years after having sung professionally for 17 years in Germany. She performed in numerous concerts and in 50 opera roles in the mezzo-soprano and dramatic soprano repertoire. In March and April of 2002 she spent six weeks of her sabbatical checking on changes affecting state-supported opera in Germany since the fall of the Berlin Well in 1989. This article reports her findings.
