June Anderson

June Anderson became one of the leading coloratura soprano singers in the 1980s, hailed as a successor to Joan Sutherland and Beverly Sills. (When she met Sutherland, the Australian diva pointed out the similar width of their jaws and quipped, "I'm told the E flats are in that jaw!") Anderson began taking singing lessons when she was eleven. She entered the Metropolitan Opera National Auditions at the age of seventeen and became the youngest person ever to be a finalist in that competition. She took a standard university education, majoring in French at Yale, where she gradu...