From 1947 to 1952 he was a correspondent for the American journal Opera News.
He served for many years as the Toronto correspondent for Opera News magazine.
Zakariasen was also a repete contributor of articles to Opera News magazine and to New York Concert Review.
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When the Tsarevich runs away with Sonja he believes that she is a boy adding what Richard Traubner of Opera News called an "underlying homosexual frisson" to the operetta.
In 1936 she became the first chief editor of Opera News, a position she held until 1957 when she founded the Metropolitan Opera's archives.