November 2003

He started out as a lackadaisical singer. Then he left singing, and for 10 years he couldn’t figure out why his life wasn’t working. Even making $100,000 a year didn’t fix the feeling that something was very wrong.

Have you ever wondered why that final “e” in French mélodie and arias is sometimes sung and sometimes not? The basis of French poetry is the alexandrine, a line that

The singer’s New Year has just barely begun. How are your resolutions going? Here’s help to get you up and moving so you’ll enjoy a feeling of high energy and look terrific for holiday gigs and the current audition season. (By the way, daily exercise is not optional for serious singers. So pick your poison…I mean, passion!)

Indiana School of Music turns out divas; but they probably never counted on turning out a diva like Judith Barnes. She can not only sing, but makes her living now by sculpting and running her very own opera company. This is a good model for singers to follow in this brave new world of budget cuts.

Franco Corelli Hospitalized In September it was reported that retired tenor Franco Corelli had suffered a stroke and had been taken to a hospital in Milan. Although there was some