Classical Singer Magazine

Emmie & Harry’s : Streaming Cabaret Club

Emmie and Harry’s is a public Facebook group, set up as an online cabaret venue with a weekly schedule including individual artist shows, open mic, and themed shows of multiple

Sep 28 Joanie Brittingham

Car and Dupuis : Cooking Up Opera, Life, and Love

Nicole Car and Etienne Dupuis recently sang for the whole world from their home in Paris at the Metropolitan Opera’s At-Home Gala. They brought the same joyful energy to that

Sep 20 Joanie Brittingham

Crossover Corner : Making A Self-Tape

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, schools and universities across the country turned to online classes for much of the spring and summer terms. In the musical theatre world, this

Sep 20 Christy Turnbow

Five Things a Conductor Wants from Your Next Audition

How tall you are, whether your voice will fit well with the ensemble, if and how you gesture while you sing—these are some of the aspects of your opera

Sep 13 Nyela Basney

The Singer’s Library : The Brain on Music

The human brain is notoriously complex. After all, the phrase "It's not brain surgery!" came from somewhere for a reason. It would be understandable, then, if singers feel intimidated by the title of the new book The Musician's Mind: Teaching, Learning, and Performance in the Age of Brain Science. Author Lynn Helding points out in the preface, however, that the focus of the book is not neuroscience, which is concerned with the anatomy of physiology of brain structure.

Sep 06 Brian Manternach

Learning Online : Getting the Most from Virtual Private Lessons

During the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic, universities around the globe switched to online learning for what remained of their spring 2020 semester. For many of us, this change happened swiftly, and

Sep 01 Christi Amonson