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
So you need recommendation letters for grad schools or Young Artist Programs? Read this first.
A stage director first, Tomer Zvulun has directed productions from Seattle Opera to the Metropolitan Opera and everywhere in between. Now with one year under his belt as artistic and general director of Atlanta Opera, Zvulun weighs in on his new role.
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
