Roman’s invention has since gone through rounds of testing and further design tweaks. UCSF and SF Opera have filed a patent for the mask, and it’s currently being manufactured in the opera company’s ...

Chris Wiacek models a Venetian-style mask. The Syracuse Opera is having a mask design competition for its production of "Rigoletto". Photo is courtesy of Amelia Beamish/AB Photography. (Amelia Beamish ...

Sanziana Roman is a classically-trained soprano who also happens to be a professor of surgery and thyroid surgeon at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). “I just couldn’t bear the ...