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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“The most important part of teaching = to teach what it is to know.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)
“May my teaching drop like the rain, my speech condense like the dew; like gentle rain on grass, like showers on new growth.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Deuteronomy 32:2.
“It may be that through habit these do best,
Coming to water clumsily undressed
Yearly; teaching their children by a sort
Of clowning; helping the old, too, as they ought.”
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