Susan Salms-Moss '67 is a diva with a flair for the dramatic. I've died almost 300 times.
Slow deaths are the best.
Salms-Moss approaches death with more zeal than most people approach life. Her favorite role, she says, is the lead in Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk . More fun, it seems, than another career the former Long Island schoolgirl might have pursued if fate had not intervened. Salms-Moss emotes as Amelia in Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera. Unlike U.S. opera organizations, which hire artists one production at a time, German companies sign singers to multiple-year contracts and pay them a salary.