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Yale Opera singers work online with industry giants April 6, 2021 Yale Opera singers talk via Zoom with soprano Renée Fleming When Yale Opera Director Gerald Martin Moore began his work at the School of Music six months into the pandemic, he faced as tough a predicament as a new faculty member could. “We knew we couldn’t sing together,” he said. That, on its face, posed a question: What then, could vocalists do? During the fall semester, Yale Opera singers worked on technique, role study, and what else they could on their own and with a teacher safely and at a distance. Each performed an aria of their choice with a pianist in Morse Recital Hall this past fall, and the school captured and broadcast those performances online, giving the singers something to add to their websites and social-media channels and to submit to competitions and auditions. This month, Yale Opera will present a recorded broadcast in which masked singers perform duets onstage in Morse, a careful step forward. For these performances and the aria program in the fall, students were coached not just by the school’s faculty but by some of the most admired and respected artists and experts of the day artists with whom Moore has enjoyed longtime professional relationships.