Teaching
Curtin taught at Yale University and is Artistic Advisor at the Opera Institute at the Boston University College of Fine Arts School of Music, where she held a Deanship of the Schools for the Arts, as well as Artist-in-Residence at the Tanglewood Music Center.
As professor Emeritus at Boston University's Opera Institute, Curtin continues to teach a series of masterclasses at the school each semester. Her most famous pupil is the legendary American soprano Cheryl Studer.
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