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Is seeking for perfection really the best aim? Perhaps there is a better, more effective pursuit.

Another audition season wraps up this month, making this a perfect time to reevaluate your audition repertoire. Does your starter aria really show you at your best? Is your package of arias well put together and does it give an audition panel a clear sense of how you see yourself? Read about these and other factors to ensure your audition repertoire best showcases you.

Owning original music is valuable on so many levels, the least of which is that anything else is illegal. But where and how do you start? Read up on the essential books that will give you a solid start to creating your own music library.

Mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnson Cano has had some lucky breaks—key mentors placed in her path at critical moments, a terrific scholarship to Rice University, placing at the regional level of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions on her first attempt and then later winning, and marrying an equally accomplished pianist to collaborate with. And, yet, as Cano discusses these accomplishments and others, it becomes immediately apparent that there’s much more than luck involved here. Hard work, thorough and complete preparation, and a level-headed yet passionate career approach are the real reasons for Cano’s rising star.

Conductor Joseph Mechavich declares in his interview with Kathleen Buccluegh (p. 42) that we are currently engaged in a “cultural war” as opera companies struggle to stay relevant in today’s

As singers start their careers, it can often seem that anyone and everyone wants their money. Knowing how and where to spend your valuable dollars requires educating yourself. Cindy lays out the resources for getting the information you need here.

A new book reveals the insights of the legendary Franco Corelli on everything from technique to interpretation to what he thought of other tenors who came both before and after him.

By Mark Stoddard, author of Marketing Singers, a business and marketing guidebook written specifically for singers. While in Vienna recently I took in an abbreviated performance of Mozart’s Marriage of

Making the leap from student to professional can be challenging. Find out why, along with five spot-on tips sure to give you a leg up.

From what to charge to how to find students to how to get them to pay and keep coming, established singers/teachers share the ins and outs of beginning a private studio.

My husband has a new hobby. Well, he calls it a hobby. I lovingly refer to it as his obsession. When we moved into a new home over the summer,

As a singer, your body is your instrument. So how do you best condition your body to make it the most optimal instrument it can be? Find out here.