Diane McNaron
Diane McNaron (born 1947 in Texas, died February 20, 2022) was an American singer, producer and Cabaret entertainer. She worked as a stage director and cabaret, art song, opera and jazz singer throughout the US and in Europe, Venezuela and Australia. Career McNaron studied Opera Production at Florida State University from which she received a Master of Music degree in 1973, and at Indiana University with Ross Allen, Max Roethlissberger and Hans Busch. As a singer, she coached with Eleanor Steber in New York, Frau Professor Ena Thiessen at the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria, Metropolitan Opera soprano Gianna d'Angelo and with the Kurt Weill repertoire coaches Randolph Symonette and Lys Symonette. She served as an Assistant Director for the Opera Barga Festival in Italy, studying stage direction with Gino Becchi in 1977. She worked as a voice professor and theatrical stage director at several universities and colleges including Northern Arizona University, Northwestern State University of Louisiana and the University of Adelaide. Australia, from 1978 to 1988. On her return to the US, McNaron became a free-lance singer in the fields of Jazz, Cabaret and Art Song, a cabaret producer/director and voice coach. During 1991, she created