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How do you take control of your life and your career? Is it possible? One artist who has done that from the beginning is Polish contralto Ewa Podles, featured in

Soprano Susan Razavi is the founder of Alta Classica, a Manhattan company promoting classical Spanish music and zarzuela. Alta Classica features three performances per year, along with a vocal competition, master classes and an arts education performance. With a history of performance success and grant-writing experience, Susan gives some of her tips to singers thinking about starting their own company .

Some time ago, Classical Singer received an e-mail from a subscriber who shared the story of founding her own opera company and her subsequent struggles and successes. We recently caught up with Susan Cooke of the
Cambridge Lieder & Opera Society. Her story is one of determination, insight and hard work—a true labor of love.

Incorporation as a nonprofit company need not be quite as daunting a task if you go into it with all the information you can find, knowing what to expect. Here are a few tips.

Summer is a great time to buckle down and improve your language proficiency. Here’s an
overview of different types of language learning options.

Vocalist Dear CS: You recommended subscribing to this mailing list [Vocalist at www.vocalist.org]. I tried it. They often sent me as many as 50 e-mails in a day. A few

Getting Organized: As the opera season closes, you have a small window of time to fix your life’s infrastructure! That is why our focus this May is to help you

It’s 7:00 a.m., and Michele McBride is already on the go. At a time when many singers are still in bed, McBride is leaving for a day that will include 140 miles of driving and at least two jobs, before coming home again late enough in the evening that sometimes she doesn’t see her children before bedtime.

CONTACT MANAGERS: ACT! What are they? Contact managers are essentially databases: Combination address books and personal organizers with calendars, appointment books, and to-do lists, combined with a few other timesaving

Military choruses are the modern day equivalent of court musicians. So says civilian soprano Grace Gori, who suggested this article. “Everybody around D.C. is aware of these opportunities,” she says, “but beyond the Beltway, military choruses may be the best-kept secret in career options for classically-trained singers.”

We all know that stress is a fact of daily life and can be the direct cause of many problems, both physical and mental. Dr. Jahn explains how stress affects the voice and what can be done.

Many singers and artists work regular “day jobs,” and fulfill their artistic ambitions after office hours. Channing Gray spoke with a number of musicians and actors, to see how they make the choice to work two full-time jobs.