By Judith Jenya For Joseph McClain and David Manning, San Miguel de Allende was supposed to be a retirement place. Instead, it became the place where decades of experience in opera, education and leadership converged. Joseph’s life in opera began far from San Miguel. Born in Oklahoma City to a Baptist preacher, he grew up moving from coast to coast with his father’s ministry. Music was a constant. He began with piano lessons as a child and eventually discovered his voice. By

By Judith Jenya In a sunlit home tucked into the hills of San Miguel de Allende, photographer and author Leah Feldon and drummer Rick Shlosser have built a life stitched together by passion, persistence, and a lifelong pursuit of creative expression. Their studios live on different floors—hers a light-filled space of painterly photographs of landscapes, abstracts, and flowers; his alive with drums, recording equipment, and gold records. Together, they embody a creative partne