At a certain time in his life, Yale School of Music graduate Daniel Juarez M.M. ’02 aspired to a successful career as an opera star. These days, however, he measures success a bit differently.
Today, he says, he has the “best of both worlds”: a job at Yale and a relatively busy local career as an opera singer, often in the lead role.
“I’m not the textbook poster child for success for a Yale Opera singer,” acknowledges Juarez, a program coordinator for the Council of Latin American & Iberian Studies (CLAIS) at the Yale MacMillan Center. “I’m not performing at the Met or enjoying an international career. On the other hand, I’m still singing, and I get to wake up in my own home everyday and see my family.”
