2009 – Page 15 – All Articles

A longtime summer program that runs for two weeks in Boston and Washington, D.C. each summer offers singers indepth stage and acting training at a very reasonable price. One singer who has attended the program in both cities reports on her experiences.

If you’re looking to do nothing more this summer than work intensely on your audition package, look no further than this program on the Westminster Choir College campus in Princeton, New Jersey.

Erda invites you to join her in the year of dreaming big. Then she gives you five steps to make those dreams become a reality, one day at a time.

After making his La Scala debut in 1980 as the incorrigible Falstaff, baritone Juan Pons went on to sing at every major opera house around the world. Still an active artist, Pons also makes time to share his experiences and advice with singers who are just starting out, as he did while visiting students at the Bel Canto Institute in Florence, Italy last summer. Program participant Margaret Higginson shares with CS readers what Pons had to say about his career, how he studies roles, what led him to make the switch from bass to baritone, and how his career has affected his life and his family.

Mortier Quits The New York Times announced Nov. 7 that provocative impresario Gerard Mortier has decided not to assume the top position at New York City Opera. For the previous

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Kenneth Kamal Scott Tenor Brooklyn, N.Y. Please tell our readers about your career highlights so far. Soloist with Boston Symphony Orchestra with John Williams conducting, starring role on Broadway for

A Google search on New Year’s resolutions instantly reveals a host of websites listing the most common goals. The lists look remarkably similar with essentially the same resolutions worded just

Building on the continuing discussion of recognition, mourning, grief, and letting go, Adria Firestone discusses the healing, forgiveness, and gratitude that can come after a singer decides to leave the stage.

CS wraps up its four-part series on the Feldenkrais Method with a continued discussion about how this technique can help you learn to release unnecessary tension in your singing and discover a new way of doing things.

Aspiring singers are always looking for clues on how to achieve success, so it’s natural to seek and find a community of other aspiring singers for support. In many instances, however, such relationships are a bit like the blind leading the blind. For gaining a deep understanding of what the singer’s life entails, you can’t find a better source than first-hand information from singers who are doing it, or have done it—and the most detailed accounts are in successful singers’ autobiographies. Here are some tidbits from three autobiographies by singers whose careers span the past 80 years.

What does it take to achieve success in the Met Auditions? How should singers prepare and what should they expect? Last year’s five winners talk about their experiences and what impact winning the competition has had on their careers.