Il Trovatore (Leonora) with Gerd mairandres, Wig and Make-up Dept. Head at San Francisco Opera.

Making my Avery Fisher Hall debut with the NYC Gay Men's Chorus. Chorus member and neighbor, Stuart Cohen, had this picture snapped of us with the advertisement. I've had my name on lots of marquee boards through the years, but this was the first with my face emblazoned on it ... and in such company! WOW!

Backstage at a concert in Golden Gate Park. When I jokingly complained that the signs provided the concert goers were all printed with "Bravo", the tech crew created for a me a personalized "BRAVA" sign ... which, incidentally, still hangs on my refrigerator at home!

With dear friend Shawn McCauley at Lincoln Center before a performance of Don Giovanni at New York City Opera.

Again at Lincoln Center before a NYCO performance of Don Giovanni, this time with my mother, Ruth and brother Paul Waite. In all the years of my singing career, it was the first time my family was able to come to NYC to see me perform.

After a San Angelo Symphony Christmas Pops concert with Justin White (baritone) and the late Dr. Eldon U. Black (basso profundo), a DEAR friend, as well as one my first voice teachers.

This picture was snapped as I was heading to an Opera in the Park performance of Il Barbiere di Siviglia with the Met. The sausage vendor was always parked on the corner by my Upper Westside apartment and my companion, Matthew Parsons, thought it was hysterically funny to have me in my performance attire paired with the "sausages" sign. Quinessentially New York!

With P.E. Macallister, after being awarded first place in professional division of the 1996 Macallister Awards in Indianapolis, IN.