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...
Can I become an opera singer later in life?
Becoming a singer at a later age For anyone considering a career in classical singing at any point in their lives, one question applies: ARE YOU CERTAIN YOU WANNA DO THIS? I do believe everyone should sing and everyone should learn to sing to some extent. Many medical...
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...
Lyric or dramatic? How to determine your voice type
What’s your voice type? Lyric or dramatic? Let me start with a rant: it has become a common practice, in colleges and conservatories around the world, for teachers to become extremely fearful of “pushing” the young singer. While it’s quite...ARTax Music
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