Article: 'When I feel a song coming on, I belt it out wherever I am' Opera singer fills the town with music

All the world is a stage for baritone Peter Tuff.

"When you take the garbage out, you might as well do it with a song on your lips," he said.

Neighbors on his Briargate block are used to outbursts of song by the 44-year-old opera singer.

Dogs have been known to howl along.

"When I feel a song coming on, I belt it out wherever I am -- in the grocery store, restaurant, front yard," he said. "Standing around the barbecue, during church, I let it rip."

The tall, curly-haired, computer technicianby-day has been a guest soloist at Colorado Springs Philharmonic and church concerts since moving here from Vienna, where he sang professionally for six years.

Tuff was a soloist in Sunday's ...

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