If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over? John Wooden How do you want to introduce yourself to your
It may be April now, but the Fall audition season will be here before you know it. As actively auditioning singers, especially at the university and YAP level, we need
An audition in 1986 changed my life. It wasn’t even my audition. I attended Indiana University for my Master’s degree in Piano. My parents had offered financial help for
Asthma doesn’t seem to bother me any more unless I’m around cigars or dogs. The thing that would bother me most would be a dog smoking a cigar. – Steve
What do artistic directors have to say about body image, weight, and hiring practices? Are singer and teacher perceptions about industry standards false? For an article in Classical Singer
“There are three types of people in this world: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen and those who wonder what happened. We all have a choice.
It is often said that music is a universal language. Few would argue, however, that music is a universal culture-especially not singers who have lived and worked overseas. These singers
“What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson Are you prepared to become an entrepreneur? Do you naturally have the
Did you know that by choosing the wrong audition repertoire you can actually hinder your chances of being admitted into the school of your dreams? Do you choose repertoire that
After 22 years in the role of Wagner’s Wotan at the Met, bass-baritone James Morris recently hung up his eye patch for good—at the Met, anyway. Knowing when to say when is just one example of the practicality with which Morris forges his career. He allowed his Italian training to educate his German singing, bringing a legato to Wagner that has made him legendary. Although Wotan remains, perhaps, his best known role, Morris has sagely made sure it is not his only role—a decision that has kept him singing all roles with more ease. And while many of his decisions have been carefully calculated, singing Wagner couldn’t have been more of a surprise.
A soprano, a composer, an ensemble director, and a financial backer speak on the art of collaboration on the world premiere of Audenesque.
Kennedy Center to Expand The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts will soon begin construction of an expansion project to be located south of the existing facility, reports
