Daniel Helfgot is the author of The Third Line: The Singer as Interpreter, now available through Classical Singer magazine in paperback. Helfgot is the director of opera at UMKC and the director of the Middle America Opera Apprentice Program and has directed over 160 productions of opera, operetta, zarzuela, cabaret and tango in the USA, Canada, Germany, Austria, Mexico, Puerto Rico and Argentina.
Celeste Mann, a mezzo from New York City, specializes in Italian opera and zarzuela.
