Career crescendo coming for singer from Cape

Friday, February 21, 2003

As a voice student 10 years ago at Southeast Missouri State University, Donna Smith was chosen to go to Italy to perform in the Operafestival di Roma along with fellow student Laura Pierce of Poplar Bluff, Mo., and their professor, Louisa Panou-Takahashi. Smith sang the role of Pamina in Mozart's "The Magic Flute."

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