Do you have to live in New York City to have a career? Professional and emerging professional singers from around the world talk about where they live and work.
I can’t tell my mother where I’m living.
Looking through our database we found building which have seven or more singers living in them.
One year ago, soprano Kimberley Bentley began the process of transforming herself from a student to a professional singer. The proposition is formidable under any circumstances, and life in New York City presents special challenges. Photographer Jonathan Ellis documented a week’s worth of frustrations and triumphs. Kimberley discusses them below.
We first fell under Jennifer’s spell when she was singing Romeo in I Capuleti e i Montecchi with Opera Orchestra of New York. Backstage, her warm-ups alone would’ve won a Grammy. She wrote the following article by e-mail from her hotel in Europe where she was doing a new recording of…Romeo!
DOES THE SHOW GO ON? It is the final scene of Elektra at San Francisco Opera. You are standing next to the mezzo as she “dies” in a pool of
It is said that Beverly Sills once told aspiring opera singers that if they could stand to do something else for their full-time occupation, they should. We agree. But while
We have received numerous questions about the effects of nasal surgery on the voice. Is such surgery beneficial? Does the voice change? Should nasal surgery be performed in the hopes of improving resonance?
I learned about the importance of stage safety from years of sometimes hard experiences. Around 1974, in the Met’s Romeo and Juliet, I was doing my staged “dying” as Mercutio,
“Opera almost always has more vio lence on stage than (non-musical) drama. Just about every production I work with, I run into a singer who has been injured in a
I was seriously injured on opening night doing a fight scene with an Italian whose English was very limited. There was no translator provided in rehearsals so he probably didn’t
…a colleague became ill onstage? We had a chorister die on stage, of a stroke; she just collapsed in the middle of the big opening scene in Otello, was helped
