Within that first year, Cornell had performed in “Candide,” by Leonard Bernstein, and had also sung before a large audience in Pittsburgh. They were the four most pivotal years of my life.” I came out of there knowing how to sight read, knowing languages, knowing the opera. What could I do? You don’t turn down a scholarship, and then I became totally immersed into classical music. But when I went to college, I got accepted at Carnegie Mellon and got a scholarship because of my voice. “Yeah, I listened to Debbie Gibson and Richard Marx,” she said. I did that play, but then I really didn’t sing again until I was 15, and I probably wouldn’t have if I didn’t have good high school teachers who encouraged me.”Ĭornell laughs when remembering her musical tastes in high school during the late 1980s. “My mother thought she had a wrong number, because I was very shy and never said that much.
“I auditioned for a fifth-grade play, and my teacher called my mother and told her, ‘Do you know your daughter can sing?’ ” remembered Cornell.
MORE INFO: 442-3997, Cornell says that as a child she was a bit withdrawn and never sought any kind of spotlight. HOW MUCH: $10, $5 for students, faculty and seniors WHERE: University at Albany’s Performing Arts Center, Albany WHAT: A condensed production by Hubbard Hall Opera Theater
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