Soprano Roza Tulyaganova and mezzo-soprano Jeanette Fontaine will perform a donor-supported concert with pianist Christy Lee at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, Auburn University on Thursday from noon to 1:00 p.m. in the Auditorium as part of the museum’s weekly series, “A Little Lunch Music. The trio will present “Dueling Divas,” a program of duos by composers including Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Giacomo Puccini, Georges Bizet, and Irving Berlin. All three performers are on faculty at Mississippi State Univeristy. An anonymous gift has helped to make this performance possible.The café menu is available online.

Tulyagonova is a native of Uzbekistan. She has performed to acclaim such opera roles as Fiordiligi in “Cosí fan tutte” at Hubbard Hall Opera, Countess in Capital Opera’s “Marriage of Figaro,” and Lauretta in “Gianni Schicchi” with the Mississippi Opera. She completed graduate degrees at the Manhattan School of Music and Stony Brook University.

Fontaine studied at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and the University of Alabama. Her students have placed in both the National Association of Teachers of Singing and Mississippi Music Teachers Association competitions. She is the musical director and conductor for the Mississippi State University Opera and currently teaches Song Literature and Diction in English, German, Italian, and French. Dr. Fontaine is studying the Russian language and is an avid performer of Russian repertoire.

Lee has worked as pianist, coach, and assistant conductor at Opera Memphis, Chattanooga Opera, Pensacola Opera, Cleveland Opera, Knoxville Opera, Crested Butte Music Festival, Lake Placid International Voice Seminar, Pine Mountain Music Festival, Lyric Opera Cleveland, and Dorian Opera Theatre. For six years Lee was on the faculty of the College of The Bahamas where she was a founding member of C Force, the school’s premiere chamber group. She holds degrees from Florida State University, the Cleveland Institute of Music, and the University of Alabama.