<p>From Boston Globe: “BU website embellished biography of opera director”</p>
<p>(link to full article: [BU</a> website embellished biography of opera director - The Boston Globe](<a href=“http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2009/12/18/bu_website_embellished_biography_of_opera_director/]BU ”>http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2009/12/18/bu_website_embellished_biography_of_opera_director/ ) )</p>
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By many measures, Sharon Daniels is a star at Boston University. She heads the school’s Opera Institute and is one of the most prominent voice instructors and stage directors in the city. The New England Opera Club honored her with an award in 2003, and her stagings of classic operas such as “The Marriage of Figaro’’ have garnered rave reviews.</p>
<p>Yet, Daniels’s biography on the BU website embellished her professional experience. Though it said she performed in starring roles with several A-list companies in Europe and San Francisco, a Globe review has found that four institutions have either no record of her or cast her in minor parts. In one case, in which she is listed as principal soprano, she was actually the fifth of six flower maidens in a 1974 production of Wagner’s “Parsifal.”
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<p>Ever wonder if some colleges “deliberately” pad the credentials of their stars…seems like BU is standing behind her. Why would BU do this if they weren’t somehow at least partly culpable?</p>