{"id":1280,"date":"2012-09-30T01:30:38","date_gmt":"2012-09-30T01:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/somainfo.org\/?page_id=1280"},"modified":"2020-04-01T20:42:08","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T20:42:08","slug":"home-4","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/","title":{"rendered":"Soma International Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_250\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Art-and-Lois-21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-250\" class=\" wp-image-250    \" title=\"Founders, Lois Alba and Arthur Wachter\" src=\"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Art-and-Lois-21.jpg\" alt=\"Founders, Lois Alba and Arthur Wachter\" width=\"360\" height=\"654\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Art-and-Lois-21.jpg 782w, https:\/\/soma-info.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Art-and-Lois-21-165x300.jpg 165w, https:\/\/soma-info.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Art-and-Lois-21-564x1024.jpg 564w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-250\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Founders, Lois Alba and Arthur Wachter<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 27px; color: #ff0000;\"> NOTICE: APRIL 2, 2020<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">SADLY, DUE TO THE UNPREDICTABILITY OF THE COVID 19 VIRUS AND ALL PROCESSES\u00a0 IN PLACE TO DIMINISH THE SPREAD, WE ARE FORCED TO CANCEL THE 15TH LOIS ALBA ARIA COMPETITION AT THIS TIME UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.\u00a0 MAY YOU AND YOUR LOVED ONES STAY SAFE.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 27px;\">Soma International Foundation, Inc., is\u00a0a non-profit organization founded in 1978 by Lois Alba and Arthur Wachter for the purpose of helping aspiring opera\u00a0singers secure more opportunities, exposure, training and guidance in the exciting and highly\u00a0competitive art world of opera. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 27px;\">Ms. Alba spends much of her time in the company of singers, helping them hone in and develop their natural talents. As a former opera singer and performer herself, she is well aware of the many challenges singers face and is very resourceful at planning venues where they can get the exposure and feedback necessary from exemplary music professions in the field. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 27px;\">Arthur Wachter is also a great admirer and supporter of opera singers and dedicates much of his time to the behind-the-scenes work of all our projects and endeavors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOTICE: APRIL 2, 2020 SADLY, DUE TO THE UNPREDICTABILITY OF THE COVID 19 VIRUS AND ALL PROCESSES\u00a0 IN PLACE TO DIMINISH THE SPREAD, WE ARE FORCED TO CANCEL THE 15TH LOIS ALBA ARIA COMPETITION AT THIS TIME UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.\u00a0 MAY YOU AND YOUR LOVED ONES STAY SAFE. Soma International Foundation, Inc., is\u00a0a non-profit organization [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"no-sidebar.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1280","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1280"}],"version-history":[{"count":68,"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1286,"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1280\/revisions\/1286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}