Susan Stoderl, 48, said she and her husband, both opera singers, had dealt with the problem for a combined 79 years, hanging tapestries in their bathroom to muffle the sound or singing in the car.
She also traveled the world and wrote articles about accommodations and adventures in other countries, often under a double byline with her husband, soap opera actor Walter Mathews.
John Nardolillo, the conductor and Ms. Nardolillo's husband, paces the opera comfortably and gets a fine, polished sound from the chamber orchestra.
Irene Adler (yes, that Irene Adler, the woman who outwitted Sherlock Holmes) has left her husband and the opera stage for a new career as a cataloger of antiquities at the British Museum.
Ms. Miller, who also has a debut solo album, "A Glorious Dream," coming out this month, lives less calamitously in the financial district with her husband, David Miller, an opera singer and a member of the group Il Divo; and their dog, Cosmo, a Maltese-Havanese mix.
My husband hosts an opera podcast on which he has had to add a segment called "The Weekly Dirge" where they discuss which opera company has bitten the dust that week.
The music director, Philip Ventre, has invited the husband-and-wife opera stars Daniel and Heather Narducci (who live in Middlebury) to help make it a grand night for singing, with selections from "Carousel," "South Pacific," "The King and I" and other Broadway classics.
The husband has a huge opera collection which the narrator often stares at.
She wrote to Arnold Bennett, Bernard Shaw, and John Galsworthy for librettos from which her husband might compose an opera, and she invited Igor Stravinsky to the Riviera to instruct her husband in harmony and composition.
