In addition to lending credibility to your name as a singer and immortalizing your voice, recordings, when marketed commercially, can also be a potential source of income. Choosing the right repertoire, being smart about the recording and production process, and effectively distributing your CD are essential to ensuring its success. Danielle Woerner offers what you need to know to be your own Executive Producer.
What stops you from creating your own career opportunities? Do you know what is standing between you and your willingness to start this process? Is it simply that you don’t know where to begin? Is it that you feel you already have too many things on your plate to start another project right now? Is it that you don’t feel you are ready? Are you waiting until you have everything in perfect order? Maybe you’re afraid to take a risk or afraid of making the wrong choice.
As singers we would not think of getting on stage in front of hundreds or thousands of people without warming up our voice. As we all know, this could greatly damage our instrument. Here’s CS’ yoga expert with a simple routine to help treat your body with the same respect as you give your voice.
Looking for sound ideas and solid career advice from someone who knows the business? Look no further. This recent book from the director of the Career Services Center at the New England Conservatory tells you everything you need to know for creating a “portfolio career.”
Solange Sior seems to embody the entrepreneurial spirit. Not long after arriving in America from Canada, she started her own studio and booking agency. This soon led to bigger and better things—her own opera company! She sat down recently with CS’ Catherine Tully to share all that she’s learned about building a company from the ground up.
The orange, red, and gold leaves of autumn have mostly fallen from the trees as the weather turns cold. The onset of winter often means the onset of the cold and flu season as well. Before you start that next round of antibiotics, consider these words of advice from CS’ resident physician.
Opera singers’ lives are full of comedic and dramatic material. Imelda Franklin Bogue decided to capitalize on operatic experiences, creating a one-woman show based on the daily events of her life as an opera singer. Find out how Bogue is making her own performing opportunities, and introducing opera to the masses at the same time.
Susan Dormady, while writing a novel, concocted the idea of having an actual song for her impassioned-soprano heroine to sing. Read how she made her crazy idea a reality—and consider commissioning your own song.
What happens when life leads you away from the performing life for which you’ve dreamed, planned, and trained? Even if the Met career you dreamed of doesn’t materialize, you can find satisfying—even lucrative—outlets for performing.
