A novice dives into Puccini’s tragic world in Opera 101
By Ami Albernaz Globe Correspondent / November 8, 2007
On a typical Thursday evening, Pauline Kerwin, a 28-year-old product manager at a Lexington software company, might have drinks with co-workers or catch up on the latest issue of Smithsonian Magazine at her Boxborough home. But this fall, Kerwin spent her Thursday nights engaged in a far more daunting task: learning about opera.