[1] Weathers attended Indiana University School of Music, where she studied voice with Dorothee Manski, Charles Kullman, and Frank St.

Among Weathers' notable opera performances were the leading roles in Salome (R. Strauss), Aida (Verdi), Madama Butterfly (Puccini), and as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni (Mozart), Elisabeth in Don Carlos (Verdi), and many others.

[4] Her last staged opera performance was in 1999 in Germany, where she sang the role of Chrysothemis in Elektra (R. Strauss).

Weathers directed Madama Butterfly for the Ebony National Opera in New York City and for the Heidelberg Oper in Germany.

She directed Il trovatore in Philadelphia and Porgy and Bess in Rio de Janeiro.