The composer has provided a more detailed description of dynamics than is usual for music of this period, and attention should be paid to his wishes.
The Composer’s aria from Ariadne auf Naxos is one of the great soprano arias in Strauss. Soprano? But it is usually sung by mezzos, isn’t it? In recent years, yes.
The internationally indispensable Robert Lloyd is one bass who never has to worry about the low notes in Banco's aria. His cavernous bottom register is the stuff of legends.
In this lilting favorite, Musetta makes an outrageous statement. Savoring the words helps to put it across.
Singing in one’s native English is often more difficult — rather than easier — than a foreign language.
This modern score, couched in Eighteenth Century idioms and allusions, presents its own special set of difficulties.
The Count's Vengeance Aria from Mozart's Le Nozze de Figaro is a study in contrasts.
An expert coach helps you find the right stresses for Bellini's complex recitative
A leading opera coach shows how to express the hidden urgency in Juliet’s famous waltz song from Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette. Often singers miss the point of this too-familiar showpiece, failing to understand what is really being said. CS explores this aria and steers your interpretation away from the insipid toward the inspired.
A well-known coach brings you closer to the authentic Gershwin style Tricky rhythmic notation and memorization traps are two of the difficulties of this deceptively familiar aria
A leading opera coach reveals the secrets hidden in Cherubino’s popular aria from Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro
An opera coach takes a close look at the famous aria from Johann Strauss' Die Fledermaus
Great vocal performances happen when singers truly explore a role, and it helps to have a coach who can walk you through the process. Joseph Smith, a New York vocal coach, shows you how to begin the task of getting beneath the surface of a piece using the tenor aria “E lucevan le stelle,” from Tosca. The specific aria or song may vary, but the ideas are universal.
