Summer is here, and that means many of you are probably packing up and heading off to various locations around the world to perform in operas, festivals, and concerts. It’s an exciting time, but you’ll want to make sure you’re… Continue Reading
Libraries are an amazing yet underused resource. Too many people associate libraries with school, so once they’re out in the real world, they stop using them. This is unfortunate when libraries offer so much to the public. Plus, for… Continue Reading
There’s this belief that “If you do what you love, you never work a day in your life.” This idea permeates so deeply into our culture that it causes all sort of issues for creative workers. These issues include low… Continue Reading
In our last post, we talked about famous operas that were originally books, books that may now have been lost to the contemporary mind. Today, we’ll talk about the same phenomenon from a slightly different perspective. These books are famous… Continue Reading
In the arts, it’s incredibly common for one work to be based on another work from a different genre (which is then based on another work, and another, and maybe even another!). Opera is a great example of this; we… Continue Reading
There has been quite a stir in the world of opera criticism; Norman Lebrecht, known for his somewhat controversial blog Slipped Disc, reported that Canadian music critic Arthur Kapitainis quit his freelance position at the National Post. The Post inexplicably… Continue Reading
Everyone, this is a story I’ve been waiting to tell you for a while now. The only reason I’ve been waiting is so the story could reach its end before I shared it (although in a way, the stories… Continue Reading
Maren Montalbano is a professional mezzo-soprano who specializes in new music and early music. She is currently self-producing an album of works by all women composers with all women performers; check out her project page. Listen to her sing at… Continue Reading
When it comes to training voice teachers, the primary focus is on the pedagogy of adult voices. Oftentimes though, private voice teachers don’t learn how to teach young kids. Many teachers are of the school of thought that no young… Continue Reading
There are a lot of steps to self-producing a recital. With a lot of steps come a lot of expenses as well. These expenses create roadblocks for the entrepreneurial musician. One of the most common roadblocks musicians encounter when attempting… Continue Reading