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While planning the annual back-to-school September issue you’re now holding in your hands, I sought out interviewees for April James’ article on hiring agents’ perceptions of advanced degrees. I contacted

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. . . And the Show Continued to the End American soprano Joyce DiDonato was singing Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia on opening night at London’s Royal Opera House

In addition to gaining the requisite experience to move from the student level, to the Young Artist level, to the professional arena, finding the funding to keep your career going is also necessary. Read about one foundation which has been helping singers do just that for over seven years.

Before you start launching expletives at opera companies as you pull out your checkbook to pay yet one more audition fee, find out the whys and wherefores of those fees.

A 2008 and 2009 Young Artist at Santa Fe Opera relates how diligent preparation, consistent hard work, and a stroke of good fortune during last summer’s SFO season changed her life forever.

When I decided to make the 140-mile trek to sit down with a few of the Apprentice Artists at this summer’s Lake George Opera Festival, I had no idea I

At a time when many opera companies are scaling back, one company in upstate New York is making some significant changes in the face of recent unprecedented growth. Curtis Tucker, former general director and now artistic director, shares the reasons for his title change and what it means for him and Lake George Opera.

Don’t let the seemingly endless expenses that go along with your audition package get you down. There are ways to save costs without scrimping on quality.

It’s 5 a.m. The alarm rings. You don’t want to get up, but you force yourself to drag your sorry behind out of bed, knowing you’ll regret it if you

Addio, Amato Opera, ‘Addio mio dolce amor!’ Even if Amato Opera did not present Puccini’s Edgar, the opera from which the headline derives, its music was sweet to the ears