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This book is a comprehensive guide to the training, audition technique, and professional development essential for launching and sustaining a career in classical singing. Claudia Friedlander draws on the expertise of prominent educators and opera industry professionals to provide resources for singers at every level of development.
List of contents
Forward by Joyce DiDonato
Preface: Why Do You Sing?
Acknowledgments
Introduction: A Lifelong Journey
PART ONE: Learning the Craft
Chapter 1: The Complete Package
Chapter 2: Training Programs
Chapter 3: Technique
Chapter 4: Musicianship
Chapter 5: Languages and Diction
Chapter 6: Dramatic Interpretation
Chapter 7: Choosing Audition Repertoire
Chapter 8: Audition Preparation, Technique and Etiquette
Chapter 9: Performance Opportunities
Chapter 10: Investing in Your Training
PART TWO: The Apprenticeship Phase
Chapter 11: Resident Artist Programs
Chapter 12: Promotional Materials
Chapter 13: Public Master Classes
Chapter 14: Competitions
Chapter 15: Keeping Afloat
PART THREE: Going Pro
Chapter 16: From Contract to Closing Night: The Opera Singer at Work
Chapter 17: Crafting Your Public Persona
Chapter 18: Management
Chapter 19: Choose Your Own Adventure
Chapter 20: Running Your Business
Conclusion: A Lifetime of Song
About the author
Claudia Friedlander is a voice teacher and fitness expert based in New York City. She has presented workshops on vocal fitness for The Voice Foundation and the Performing Arts Medicine Association, and was an invited panel discussant on health and wellness for OPERA America. Her students have performed on Broadway, and at leading opera houses including The Santa Fe Opera and the Metropolitan Opera. She is the author of the monthly column "Musings on Mechanics" for Classical Singer Magazine as well as a widely read and cited blog on vocal technique and fitness, The Liberated Voice. In 2008, she joined the faculty of the Weill Music Institute at Carnegie Hall, where her most recent project was the development, in collaboration with Joyce DiDonato, of The Singer's Audition Handbook, an interactive online career development guide for young singers.
Summary
This book is a comprehensive guide to the training, audition technique, and professional development essential for launching and sustaining a career in classical singing. Claudia Friedlander draws on the expertise of prominent educators and opera industry professionals to provide resources for singers at every level of development.
