Photo by BERNADETTE LA PAGLIA

As the princess, Pamina, contemplates her suicide, the Three Spirits conspire to dissuade her fatal intentions in this scene from Mozart's The Magic Flute, staged by Tommie Barfield Elementary School by Opera Naples' Young Artists Program. Seen here from left to right: founder and director of ON Steffanie Pearce who presided as narrator; boy sopranos Marcello Marsalli, 12, his younger brother Luciano, 7, and Patrick Moran, 12; freelance musician Robin Frank at the piano; and Pamela Jimenez, recent graduate from the University of Miami's School of Voice. (All three boys are home schooled and study voice, piano and violin.)