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a teenager: she saw Floyd’s S usannah
at Lyric Opera of Chicago and said she was blown away. “I had no idea that opera could be so expressive,” she remembers, “and so instantly I knew I had to explore it further.”
By that point, she was already interested in singing. “I had a mother who exposed me to everything she could think of,” she says, “so when
I was young, I tried just about everything—piano, dance, basketball, volleyball, softball, cello, gure skating. I really gravitated toward dance, so when I got to high school, I thought that maybe singing would go along with the dancing.”
Majeski wanted to sing musical theatre, but her voice teacher suggested she try out an Italian art song. “It was so confusing to me,” she says. “I didn’t like it. I wanted to sing in English. I didn’t know how to pronounce the words. But the more I
Majeski as Marta in Lyric Opera of Chicago’s production of The Passenger, 2015
studied it, the more I fell in love with
it.”“I was probably 18 or 19 when I was bitten by the operatic bug, which I think is a little late compared to some,” she says. “I had a lot to catch
up on, and it was all so fresh and new and very exciting.”
Several teachers and schools helped her in her journey to becoming the artist she is today. “I can’t say I ever had a teacher who didn’t push me in
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