Opera singers come to campus for Visions and Voices event

Award-winning bass-baritone Cedric Berry, left, looks at soprano Lisa Eden as she sings during a performance of La Ci Darem La Mano by Mozart, with piano accompaniment by Zora Mihailovich, at a Visions and Voices event titled, "Music and Medicine," held March 31 at Mayer Auditorium on the Health Sciences Campus.

Award-winning bass-baritone Cedric Berry, left, looks at soprano Lisa Eden as she sings during a performance of La Ci Darem La Mano by Mozart, with piano accompaniment by Zora Mihailovich, at a Visions and Voices event titled, “Music and Medicine,” held March 31 at Mayer Auditorium on the Health Sciences Campus.

Attendees were treated to several operatic performances and a discussion about the ways music affects the mind during “Music and Medicine: Experiments and Explorations,” a Visions and Voices event held March 31 at Mayer Auditorium on the Health Sciences Campus.

Berislav Zlokovic, MD, PhD, director of the Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute and professor and chair of the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, moderated the discussion. Pianist Zora Mihailovitch, soprano Lisa Eden and bass-baritone Cedric Berry performed songs from various operas, including La Bohème and The Magic Flute.