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Elk Grove High School graduate Ailyn Perez stars in the opera "La Boheme." She'll be featured during a PBS broadcast of "Live From Lincoln Center" Thursday night.

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Elk Grove High School graduate Ailyn Perez sings with her husband Stephen Costello in the opera "La Boheme." The couple will be featured during a PBS broadcast of "Live From Lincoln Center" Thursday night.

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Opera soprano Ailyn Perez remembers the pivotal moment in second grade that music — and a teacher named Mr. Jacobs — rocked her world at Salt Creek Elementary School in Elk Grove Village. She didn't know it at the time, but the seemingly innocuous moment transformed Perez's life. "I wasn't the obvious candidate to be an opera singer," she said.