Classical Singer Magazine

Career Advice from the Trenches : An Interview with mezzo Wendy Hoffman

It's one thing to hear from singers with jet-setting careers; it's another to hear from a singer who has been working steadily and living in one place for years and years. How did she get where she is and how does she feel about her career?

Jul 01 Marsha Maxwell

Mozart’s Inverse Operas: Le Nozze di Figaro and Don Giovanni

The following musicological analysis is for help in interpreting roles on a deeper level or even could be used to stage a recital with singers doing the arias back-to-back

Jul 01 Marka Knight

Got Mental Game?

Singers who are overcome by nerves know the career prognosis will be bleak if something doesn't change. Fortunately, for them, there are beta-blockers. And there is Don Greene.

Jul 01 Susan Larson

SARS and the Singer

Singers are faced with fulfilling contracts in locations listed as high-risk for SARS, traveling in closed enviornments, and mingling with collegues who have come straight from high-risk areas. It's important to be well-informed about SARS.

Jul 01 Anthony Jahn, M.D.

Cantando en Espanol

If you'd like to add spice to your next recital, Pablo Zinger has fresh ideas for you. In this issue featuring coaches, we chose a coach who is an expert on Spanish repertoire and diction.

Jul 01 Pablo Zinger

Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor : I enjoy the articles, but I would like to see an article or information on local opera companies and workshops, including names of persons to contact, not

Jul 01 CJ Williamson

Editorial

July is Coach and Accompanist Appreciation Month! We’d like to encourage singers and teachers to honor accompanists and coaches this month. (Next month we honor teachers.) Think about the coaches

Jul 01 CJ Williamson

The Student Becomes A Master

Richard Leech is now one of the world's greatest tenors, and as he demonstrates here, able to teach his craft to others. But he started singing in the high school chorus and then the opera chorus, learning his craft from two very dedicated teachers. Slowly and carefully he built his voice layer upon layer, never taking a role too soon. The result is a technique of which he is now The Master. Singers who want a long career should study these foundations very carefully.

Jul 01 Gil Carbajal

Bulletin Board

Bulletin Board NEA Chair Pleads for Continued Arts Funding As many arts committees and state budgets are completely cutting arts funding, the new chairman for the National Endowment for the

Jul 01 CJ Williamson

Classical Singer Magazine

Career Advice from the Trenches : An Interview with mezzo Wendy Hoffman

Mozart’s Inverse Operas: Le Nozze di Figaro and Don Giovanni

Got Mental Game?

SARS and the Singer

Cantando en Espanol

Letters to the Editor

Editorial

The Student Becomes A Master

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