Surtitles are present in a huge number of opera houses today–all the more reason for singers to be aware not only of how they work but why. Sarah Bryan Miller explains the controversy, the advantages–and the latest trends.
Graduate school involves a commitment of time, money, and energy, and may or may not help you to achieve your performance goals.
Even if you’ve been accepted to your top-pick school, getting the “right teacher” is a game of chance. Here’s how to improve your odds
Singers are always looking for ways to earn a living or just extra money–and teaching young children is one route you may not have considered. Kindermusik and the younger Musikgarten organization may be just what you’re looking for.
In addition to vocal technique, singers need to be knowledgeable about languages, music history and theory, drama, business, publicity, and marketing, and a host of other widely varied fields of study. Where can a young singer acquire this bewildering array of tools?
What information does the new conservatory student need to have? Renowned voice professor Dale Moore explains the rigors of the conservatory, and what young singers can expect.
What are Singers saying about Education? Read the Poll to find out!
I have the distinct impression that nobody in the real performing world cares where you went to school, or even if you went to school at all. What they want is someone who can fill the shoes of a working opera singer.
Less than a year shy of his upcoming debut as Alidoro in La Cenerentola at the Metropolitan Opera, John Relyea is doing a lot of preparatory work, including performing the
There are more people in Sarah Davis’s school than in her entire hometown. Growing up in Sterling, Colorado (population 10,000), she already knew what it was like to be a big fish in a small pond.
. “My school was so small that I was the only freshman voice major that year. Really!” By comparison, the 20 voice majors enrolled last year at Saint Xavier University in Chicago must seem like a bumper crop
Amanda West* is what you might think of as a “typical” young music student–fresh out of high school, earnest, already determined to improve her art and craft, and ambitious.
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