Classical Singer Magazine

Wagner Has His Moments – But the Hours…

Many opera singers have a guilty secret they only admit to their closest friends: They don’t like to watch opera—they
only like to sing it! Here’s our favorite opera violinist, back with a guilty secret of his own!

Oct 01 Les Dreyer

How to Overcome Your Call Reluctance and Increase Your Jobs

Most singers are afraid to pick up the phone but that’s how many jobs happen and that’s one of the ways vocal studios are built. While opera companies are not enamored of singers who call, everything from booking tours to recitals to holiday parties absolutely requires that you learn to pick up that phone.

Oct 01 Bill Gager

How to Remove the Four Obstacles to Landing a Job

Increasingly, singers are discovering they have to act as their own managers. Even managed singers find that some managers don’t know how to sell their own clients. Selling is an ongoing job, and if no one is doing it, you’re probably not doing much singing.

Oct 01 Brian Tracy

Self-Supervision and the Singer : The Safety of Intelligent Practice

Many great singers say they really learned to sing from their own voices! Here are tips to help you do just that by listening, recording and sensing. This kind of practice could save a lot of money and time spent in developing the voice.

Oct 01 David L Jones

Surviving a Student Singer’s Nightmare

Vocal health is a top concern on every singer’s mind. Here is a story of success after a vocal-fold hemorrhage.

Oct 01 Lulu Amelis

Bringing Hester Prynne’s Death to Life

How do you start with a tiny thread of an idea and end up with funding, a libretto and a composition written just for you? Ask Elizabeth Dabney.

Oct 01 Elizabeth Dabney

Making Luck Happen : Robert Swedberg: Orlando Opera's General Director

The story of Robert Swedberg’s path to becoming general director of Orlando Opera is fascinating. Notice how often opportunities fell into his lap. But if you think about the situations, you’ll see that it wasn’t luck. The relationships and strong impressions he made on people caused “luck” to happen.

Oct 01 CJ Williamson

Second Chances

The following are excerpts from a new book by Mr. Gundlach on what it really means to be a singer. Many singers may relate to this tale of hitting the skids but then your art finds you, lifts you and makes you whole again.

Oct 01 Daniel Gundlach

Posture, Attitude and Voice

If your voice isn’t round and glorious, the problem may originate in a place far from the source. Both teachers and singers need to think deeply about this article—it may change the way you think about singing and performance tension.

Oct 01 Anthony Jahn, M.D.

Lord of “The Ring” : The Making of an Artistic Athlete

Alan Titus was just 25 years old and still enrolled at Juilliard when he sang the lead role in the world premiere of Leonard Bernstein’s Mass, beating his breast and intoning a hip “mea culpa, culpa, mea maxima culpa.”

Oct 01 Gil Carbajal

Bulletin Board

Student Sues School and Wins Veronica Kirby, a 22-year-old British vocal student, sued The Christine Holmes Academy of Performing and Recording Arts and won a settlement of £33,000. The court

Oct 01 Maria Nockin

Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor: This magazine is VERY oriented towards women. It would be nice to have more articles written by men and for men. —Name Withheld, New York, NY I sent

Oct 01 CS Staff