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Finding your authentic self and unique artistry in a classical music degree program can be a daunting task. This sage advice can help you find your footing more soundly.

With over a decade of leading roles on the world’s most impressive operatic stages, award-winning recording albums, and extensive concert work, renowned soprano Nicole Cabell shares her career highlights since her BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition win in 2005, what it has been like settling into an illustrious performance career, and her newfound love of teaching. Read more about her early beginnings as a Lyric Opera Center artist and her whirlwind career that eventually led to a return to the Windy City and finding a place to call home.

Hear more from Cabell in person this month at the CS Music Convention in Chicago,
May 25–28.

The author of The 21st-Century Singer: Making the Leap from the University into the World shares three things you can proactively do to keep believing in yourself when the going gets tough.

Is there a place for opera singers in the new a cappella fascination storming the land? The writer of the a cappella musical In Transit answers that question and more.

In addition to telling you how to prepare for auditions, husband and wife team Robert and Jane Mirshak share what auditioners really are looking for in an audition.

Love her or hate her, no one can deny the continuing impact of Maria Callas. Have a look at a fresh perspective into the musical styling of this controversial soprano.

True confession time. Are you ready? I have never understood the fascination with Maria Callas. When I was in college I knew of her larger-than-life reputation—on and off the stage—and

When skills that are easy in vocalizes become difficult when singing repertoire, the problem just might be with your diction. Find out how to troubleshoot to find the real issue here.

Bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green’s journey to an international opera career at first glance seems rather ordinary. Green earned vocal performance degrees at the Hartt School and Florida State University. He went on to Young Artist Programs with Opera Colorado and the Martina Arroyo Foundation. And in 2011, he won the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and landed a spot in the Lindemann Young Artist Development
Program. But as a new book and subsequent national media attention reveal, his story is a truly extraordinary one about his very troubled childhood that somehow led to a life Green could never have imagined—until he did.

New York Times author Daniel Bergner discusses his new book about singer Ryan Speedo Green and his remarkable journey overcoming significant hardships on the road to an international opera career.

Get caught up in a little spring fever with this whimsical imaginary love story set in a college practice room. And then consider the very serious idea of using a practice buddy to motivate and improve your own practice room sessions.

One of our favorite phrases of choice when communicating to our artists before a performance or audition is “Whatever you do, don’t be boring.”  While that is meant as a