Greg Waxberg, a writer and magazine editor for The Pingry School, is also an award-winning freelance writer. His website is gregwaxbergfreelance.com.
There’s nothing like tax season to force you to think about finances. Spend some time doing a little financial spring cleaning this month with these great tips from a variety of financial experts specifically for singers, including how to meet current expenses and plan for the future with an ever-changing income.
Baritone Stephen Powell and soprano Barbara Shirvis met and fell in love over 15 years ago. Not having children simply wasn’t an option. Two children and two careers later, somehow they manage both. Find out just how they juggle the demands of parenting and singing.
Singer Greta Feeney is teaming up with some top-notch fellow musicians to begin a new summer program. Feeney hopes to enhance the musical scene on the island where she grew up while also educating and inspiring singers from both near and far.
Superstar soprano Angela Brown tells why she started her one-woman show designed to draw new and younger audiences to opera.
Ryan Turner began singing over 13 years ago with the group he now leads. Read about this unique ensemble made up of soloists like Turner who come together each week for the Sunday Cantata Series featuring the music of Bach and discover what Turner has in store for the ensemble in his new role as artistic director.
Read about a unique four-year, tuition-free artist diploma program whose high-standard focus on opera is helping singers achieve their full potential.
Audition spaces can vary from everything from an apartment living room to a full-sized theater. How can a singer cope with the changing acoustics to sing well without sacrificing technique? Singers, managers, teachers, and coaches weigh in.
A recent documentary, The Audition, goes behind the scenes of the Metropolitan Opera’s National Council Auditions.
Many coaches play another critical, supportive role in singers’ lives—that of prompter. Find out what a prompter’s role is, exactly, and how a singer and prompter can best work together, as prompters from major houses share their insights as well as corrections on a few long-held misconceptions.
Singers faced with the question of whether to disrobe onstage share their experiences, including why they have or have not done it and the ramifications.
In response to a recent CS survey, singers shared their widely varying philosophies about nudity’s role in opera.
Metropolitan Opera mezzo Heidi Skok launched a new program in upstate New York in 2009. Read what singers and faculty who participated in the inaugural year have to say and find out what’s in store for 2010.
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