Classical Singer Magazine

Make the Time to Make Music : aka "Prioritize Your Life"

Singers are the busiest people we know, often juggling three lives at once. Here’s part one of a three part series on making sure music remains an important part of your life.

Oct 01 Eileen Strempel

Editor’s Note : Tools for Your Career

2005 Convention October is the second month of the opera season, and I hope you are well underway with your plans! Jo Isom, our Classical Singer convention planner, has been

Oct 01 CJ Williamson

Marketing Your Skills: : Five Ways to Showcase Your Talent

CS General Manager Mark Stoddard and columnist Cindy Sadler are going around the country giving workshops on marketing. Here are another author’s tips for you on a very complex topic.

Oct 01 Patricia Gardner

New Repertoire Discoveries for Singers : An Interview with Michael Kaye

Many young singers may not yet be ready to do Giacomo Puccini’s operatic roles—but they can sing the great composer’s songs, and learn a great deal about his style.

Oct 01 Maria Nockin

Classical Singer Subscribers Question Alan Titus

After his CS interview, Alan Titus graciously agreed to answer questions from students, submitted over the Internet.

Oct 01 CS Staff

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.