“Appreciation is an excellent thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us, as well.” – Voltaire I don’t know about you, but I personally find it to be a cruel irony that the most difficult season… Continue Reading
Some days, we’re eager beavers to sit down at the piano and start practicing. Maybe we just got a new aria we’re really excited to learn, or maybe we just got good feedback on our singing and are ready to… Continue Reading
Selecting repertoire: It’s a never-ending struggle to find that piece of music that’s just right for you. There’s so much music out there that we, as musicians, love and want to perform. Yet there’s also a thrill in discovering unique… Continue Reading
“Practicing is a story,” Glenn Kurtz explains in his book Practicing: A Musician’s Return to Music. He declares that practicing is a story musicians tell themselves of the artists they will become, of the lives that practicing will lead them… Continue Reading
In my post from a few weeks ago, I talked about the various places you can look for a good voice teacher. Now that you’ve started your search, you may have found that you don’t know what to look for… Continue Reading
It’s that time of year again, where summer’s winding down, kids are heading back to school, and people are looking for new hobbies or activities. This is a great time for voice teachers, as studios begin to fill up once… Continue Reading
An interview with the fabulous mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton has been going around. In it, she and the interviewer discuss issues of weight in opera, and their experiences as overweight opera singers. This post will not dissect the interview, but instead… Continue Reading
As an opera singer and a language enthusiast, I am constantly searching for great language resources. No skill is more powerful than understanding people and their words, and no resource is more valuable than that which can help you understand.… Continue Reading
You know what I haven’t done in a while? A video blog post! As we get back into the audition season, back into self-promotion mode, it’s great to have free and easy tools to create promotional materials. Canva is a great… Continue Reading
I have been reflecting a lot these days on, “Things I wish I had known about singing as a career.” I try to address these topics in a variety of ways on this blog, but some subtopics are easier to address… Continue Reading