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A stage manager turned artist manager shares her insights on how to be the kind of colleague companies want to hire back again and again.

Nervous energy before a performance is normal and expected, but for some it can negatively impact performances and even become debilitating. Learn how to change your focus to channel that energy in a positive way.

By guest contributors JACOPERA. Follow their regular blog at www.jacopera.com. 10 ways you know you are being TOO operatic in your everyday life (in which you know you are a

By Mark Stoddard, author of Marketing Singers, a business and marketing guidebook written specifically for singers. No singer ought to be singing for free. I had the chance to help

By Jonathan Blalock I can sincerely relate to Joan Rivers right now. In the brilliant documentary, “A Piece of Work,” Joan’s assistant asks her a question about future dates in

I have the opportunity and challenge of working from home. I started working remotely years ago when I was single, living in New York City, and actively pursuing a singing

Singers look back on their college years and share what they wish they would have known before they began their music major.

Soprano Anne-Carolyn Bird and bass-baritone Matthew Burns are currently having the adventure of a lifetime. In the midst of two full-time singing careers and as parents of two small children, the couple made an unusual and “crazy” decision. While they knew it was unconventional and not for forever, they also knew it was the best and right decision right now for their family of four.

Opera is a family affair for up-and-coming baritone Corey Crider, who balances being both full-time singer and full-time husband and father to his wife and their four children.

Singer, teacher, and summer program director Daniel Ferro passed away November 18, 2015. Read about his life and the optimistic future of the summer program he started 20 years ago.

Is bad breath getting you or someone you know or love down? Learn about the possible causes and how to keep yourself smelling minty fresh onstage and off.

For singer parents, improvisational singing with their children at home probably seems like the most mundane and natural of things. But a new study suggests such activities may have long-term and lasting impacts on children’s development. Read about the study here and see what musical parents have to say about such music making.