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A Coaching Career in NYC

Should you take the plunge? Joan Krueger on the pros and
cons of being a New York City coach

Sep 01 Emily Brunson

Performing in NYC–Play and Pay : An interview with Conard Fowkes

New York taxes are among the highest in the nation. For 21 years, Volunteer Income Taxes for Artists (VITA) has done income tax returns for performers at no charge. Conard Fowkes, an experienced actor and volunteer with VITA, explains the potential pitfalls hidden within the complexity of New York tax laws.

Sep 01 CJ Williamson

A Singer’s Life In….

Do you have to live in New York City to have a career? Professional and emerging professional singers from around the world talk about where they live and work.

Sep 01 CS Staff

I Can’t Tell My Mother Where I Live : The Realities of Life In a New York Apartment

I can’t tell my mother where I’m living.

Sep 01 Lina C. Cotman

Where Singers Live

Looking through our database we found building which have seven or more singers living in them.

Sep 01 CS Staff

Life in New York

One year ago, soprano Kimberley Bentley began the process of transforming herself from a student to a professional singer. The proposition is formidable under any circumstances, and life in New York City presents special challenges. Photographer Jonathan Ellis documented a week’s worth of frustrations and triumphs. Kimberley discusses them below.

Sep 01 Kimberley Bentley

Making Career Moves

We first fell under Jennifer’s spell when she was singing Romeo in I Capuleti e i Montecchi with Opera Orchestra of New York. Backstage, her warm-ups alone would’ve won a Grammy. She wrote the following article by e-mail from her hotel in Europe where she was doing a new recording of…Romeo!

Sep 01 Jennifer Larmore

A Higher Note : Is Your Talent Good Enough?

It is said that Beverly Sills once told aspiring opera singers that if they could stand to do something else for their full-time occupation, they should. We agree. But while

Jul 01 CS Staff

Nasal Surgery for Singers

We have received numerous questions about the effects of nasal surgery on the voice. Is such surgery beneficial? Does the voice change? Should nasal surgery be performed in the hopes of improving resonance?

Jul 01 Anthony Jahn, M.D.

The Voice of Safe Experience

I learned about the importance of stage safety from years of sometimes hard experiences. Around 1974, in the Met’s Romeo and Juliet, I was doing my staged “dying” as Mercutio,

Jul 01 Dominic Cosa

Air Don’t Bleed : An Interview with Dale Anthony Girard

“Opera almost always has more vio lence on stage than (non-musical) drama. Just about every production I work with, I run into a singer who has been injured in a

Jul 01 Linda C. Cotman

Fighting Mad

I was seriously injured on opening night doing a fight scene with an Italian whose English was very limited. There was no translator provided in rehearsals so he probably didn’t