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By Mark Stoddard, author of Marketing Singers, a business and marketing guidebook written specifically for singers.   For a true singer, singing is life and as essential as breathing. That

By Mark Stoddard, author of Marketing Singers, a business and marketing guidebook written specifically for singers.   Many books have been published on the many studies on the lives of

By Carol Kirkpatrick, author of ARIA READY, The Business of Singing   When someone in our industry talks about musical style, just what do they mean? It is easy to

By Angela Peterson Winter   Let’s face it, rejection stinks! But it’s also inevitable. And, it turns out, the one thing that can keep rejection from sinking its painful talons

According to the Deutscher Buhnenverein, the association of German theaters and orchestras, there are 130 opera houses in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, almost twice as many per capita than in

By Carol Kirkpatrick, author of ARIA READY, The Business of Singing   Watch your thoughts; they lead to attitudes. Watch your attitudes, they lead to words. Watch your words; they

By Angela Myles Beeching   This week I’m re-appreciating a great life lesson I received years ago from my good friend and colleague Michael Gaskins. We used to work together

By Mark Stoddard, author of Marketing Singers, a business and marketing guidebook written specifically for singers. No amount of good marketing advice can improve a bad product. Marketing only gets

What do you do when the diva isn’t a fellow singer but the conductor or stage director and there seems to be no pleasing them? Get practical advice from singers on how to remain professional and deal with difficult people in such situations.

Have you ever wondered why some singers who win competitions and land coveted Young Artist spots in their 20s fail to have long-term, successful careers? Faulty vocal technique, exposed when the larynx matures and ossifies, just might be the culprit. Learn how to troubleshoot your own vocal technique to ensure this doesn’t happen to you.

Cultivating a business and nurturing a child have a lot in common. Lessons learned from parenting can help you grow your business.

A few years ago after playing in the pit for the final dress rehearsal of Utah Opera’s The Flying Dutchman, my oboist friend told me that this was one production