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Roll over, Beethoven — a former ESPN reporter is coming in to shake up your one and only opera

By Lottie Elizabeth Johnson, Deseret News | Posted - Jan. 18, 2026 at 1:31 p.m.

 
Former ESPN reporter and 1985 Miss America Sharlene Wells poses at her home in Sandy on Tuesday, July 29, 2025. Wells is in Utah Opera's production of "Fidelio," at the Capitol Theatre in Salt Lake City, Jan. 17-25.

Former ESPN reporter and 1985 Miss America Sharlene Wells poses at her home in Sandy on Tuesday, July 29, 2025. Wells is in Utah Opera's production of "Fidelio," at the Capitol Theatre in Salt Lake City, Jan. 17-25. (Tess Crowley, Deseret News)

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