SAN ANGELO, Texas (Concho Valley Homepage) — Two students from ASU are headed across the seas to Austria to perform opera works in June for the American Institute for Musical Studies.

The two students, Jon Dirk Ross and Michael Breaux, are both vocal performance majors in the Angelo State Department of Visual and Performing Arts. Both were a part of the first few students of the Angelo State Opera Program directed by Mark Covey.

Ross and Breaux, though from different cities, have similar stories, including beginning performances with their middle school choirs and becoming interested in opera when they began working with Covey in college.

Ross is a San Angelo local who graduated from Central High School in 2022 and just finished his third year at Angelo State. Ross is involved not only

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