North Farmington Junior Plans a Future in Opera
Kristine Overman sings with the Michigan Opera Theatre and plans to release a CD of Broadway tunes this month.
Kristine Overman heard her first opera, Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro", at a very young age, and she didn't like it very much. Now, the 16-year-old North Farmington High has six years with the Michigan Opera Theatre (MOT) children's chorus under her belt and has plans to make opera her career. The key, she said, was sticking with opera and finding a piece with which she could connect. Her mother, Martine Overman, said Kristine really opened up to it while watching a touring performance of Puccini's "Madame Butterfly". "She said, 'Mom, her voice is so beautiful. I want to stay for the whole thing.'," Martine recalled. Kristine's face lights up at the thought of her first MOT performance, in French composer Georges Bizet's "Carmen". "…
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