Singers often leave choral music behind when they begin their professional lives, but what if you could build your career on a variety of paying, musically rewarding choral singing gigs?
In the midst of a burgeoning career that included leading roles on both the opera and musical theatre stages, baritone Bruce Yarnell’s life ended in a tragic plane crash. Now, 40 years later, we remember the baritone through the eyes of those who knew him and loved him.
Former singers share why they decided to leave professional singing and how they are finding creative fulfillment in the new careers they have chosen.
How many times should you “try, try again” when it comes to auditioning for the same company? Find out how those who hire feel about hearing singers more than once, including when reauditioning is not only acceptable but welcomed.
In part two of this five-part series on starting your own opera company, Thiers lays out how to use social media to create an e-mail list that will generate your audience.
In this first installment of a two-part series, we take an in-depth look at a sensitive subject that impacts many singers. Read about the signs and symptoms of bipolar disorder and how it specifically affects singers.
Singers share what they do and don’t think about before and during an audition, including how they manage nerves when things don’t go as planned.
Setting up a production schedule not only makes for good performances, it also teaches you some useful skills.
I recently enjoyed listening to world-famous pianist Emanuel Ax on the NPR news quiz show “Wait . . . Wait Don’t Tell Me,” live from the Koussevitzky Music Shed at
Boston Gets New Opera Company Gil Rose, the artistic director of the now defunct Opera Boston, is the general and artistic director of brand new Odyssey Opera, according to the
One of my all-time favorite movies is “The Princess Bride”. In this classic fairy tale saga one of the antagonists, Vizzini, declares to the captured Princess, “Life is pain, Princess.”
Perhaps singers should heed Abraham Lincoln’s famous quotation, “You can please some of the people some of the time . . . but you can never please all of the
