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How to deliver your best performance
What is the key to delivering your best, most masterful performance? What every potential performer learns very fast about performing is that 100% in a room usually means 80% on stage…if you’re lucky. Another analogy (given by a colleague singer) is that in a...![Why should we transpose operatic music?](https://mccraystudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/transpose-operatic-music.jpg)
Why should we transpose operatic music?
Prologue: the transpose post that stirred too much trouble A few years ago I accidentally caused a storm on a social media group: a young tenor who got hired to sing a well-known role in an even better-known opera in a small private company in Europe was having issues...![How to sing high notes?](https://mccraystudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/How-to-sing-high-notes.jpg)
How to sing high notes?
Within the 1st week of getting to know James McCray back in the late 90s, I became his translator during many lessons he was giving at the opera house in Serbia to singers who weren’t sufficiently proficient in English, Italian or German. I was a 16 years old singing...![How acoustic affects a singer’s performance](https://mccraystudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/how-acoustic-affects-singer-performance.jpg)
How acoustic affects a singer’s performance
Acoustic and voice: how does it concern you? Classical singers’ perceived singing effort has had a statistically significant relationship with preferred room setting. In addition, it has been found that there is a relationship between preference and background in...![5 Tips to win stage fright](https://mccraystudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/how-to-overcome-stage-fright.jpg)