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Broadway Meets Opera in Legendary Stage Director Dorothy Danner
BY MELANIE KOHN DAY
Dorothy Danner built an impressively vast and diverse career without any advanced degrees, learning instead from private teachers, directors, and working on professional stages. Regardless of her
lack of classroom hours, she has taught at some of the most prestigious performing schools in the U.S., and her advice to young singers offers an invaluable perspective. Discover how this Broadway dancer and actress became an operatic stage director whose credits span from Once Upon a Mattress to Die Fledermaus.
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(L to R): Jill Gardner and Maureen McKay as Anna Maurrant and Rose Maurrant in Virginia Opera’s 2018 production of Street Scene directed by Dorothy Danner.
Dorothy Danner
