Cantate Chamber Singers presents unusual programs of choral music, including frequent premieres and unique collaborations.
Urban Arias is a local professional opera-producing organization that focuses on short, modern works presented in English in smaller spaces.
Musical Theatre
Broadwayworld.com’s student section, including listings of educational institutions that offer degrees in musical theatre and related fields.
Broadway Theatre Project Training program for young musical theatre performers age 16 and up. There have been some administrative changes since 2011, so research carefully.
The Performing Arts Project Founded in 2011, is a summer program for young musical theatre performers age 16 and up.
Musicals 101 – John Henrick’s vast resource for everything you ever wanted to know about the American musical.
StageAgent is a web service dedicated to the performers and producers of musicals, dramas, and operas. Has casting requirements (character descriptions, vocal ranges, etc.) for shows.
Music Theatre International has information for the many shows that it holds the licenses for. Includes information on some shows not included at StageAgent.
The Lotte Lehmann Foundation – “The dual missions of the Lehmann Foundation are to preserve and perpetuate Lotte Lehmann’s legacy, and to honor her dream of bringing art song into the lives of as many people as possible.” The Foundation sponsors a biennial art song performance competition called CyberSing.
Patricia Caicedo has published several volumes of Latin American art songs, including two devoted to the work of Colombian composer Jaime León. Highly recommended.
Operabase contains databases of performances, opera companies, and artists, cross-referenced so that you can find out who is singing what, where, and when.
Opera Arias Database is a great resource for finding appropriate roles and arias for performance and auditions, searchable by many parameters.
The Aria Database is similar to Opera Arias Database, although a little smaller.
OperaPulse – “OperaPulse is leading a movement, online and offline, to help build up your opera community and propel this magnificent art form well into the 21st Century.”
Ópera Actual – “la revista de ópera de España con toda la ópera del mundo”. (“the opera magazine from Spain with all of the opera of the world”). A very well done magazine in print and web formats.
Ópera Latinoamérica – “Ópera Latinoamérica OLA, is a non-profit organisation that brings together Ibero-American opera theatres whose mission is to advance and promote lyric art in the Latin American region.” (sitio bilingüe)
Opera on Tap (OOT) was born in 2005 at Freddy’s Bar and Backroom in Brooklyn and incorporated in 2007 to promote opera as a viable, living and progressive art form and to support the developing artists who continue to keep the art form alive.
On Site Opera, based in New York City, is doing innovative performances at temporary locations.
National Association of Teachers of Singing or “NATS” The Journal of Singing contains articles and reviews representing varied interests and points of view. NATS occasionally sponsors educational and networking opportunities.
David Jones is my voice teacher in New York City. He was one of the first to blog. Many useful articles.
Vocal anatomy and function
Interactive Anatomy of the Larynx – Terrific way to see all the structures of the larynx, from several angles using videos, photos, drawings, and X-rays.
National Center for Voice and Speech – The “Science for Singers” section contains short, readable articles by Ingo Titze relating to vocal function in singing.
Simple drawings of different parts and layers of the vocal tract from Emory University.
Sheetmusicplus is a mail order house that has a large selection in all genres.
Classical Vocal Reprints is a great source for hard-to-find classical repertoire. Great customer service.
Miscellaneous
Archivio del Canto – A collection of books and documents on opera singing and singers.
Auditioning For College Matt Edwards has compiled a terrific bank of information about applications and auditions for degree programs in the performing arts.
Singing Redefined: A conceptual approach to singing (1998), Walter C. Foster. Recital Publications. “A conceptual approach to singing, including a study of the emotional process and the imaginative capacity, linguistic and musical awareness, singing concepts based on the responsive nature of the instrument, and exercises designed to promote a technically correct, artistically expressive singing tone.” The exercises in the back are well worth the investment.
Essays on the Nature of Singing (1992), Cornelius L. Reid. Recital Publications. An easier read than some of his earlier books, and a good introduction to Reid’s ideas of “functional training”. As radical and refreshing today as Bel Canto was in 1950.
Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World, Cal Newport.
The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself, Michael A. Singer. New Harbinger Publications/ Noetic Books. “The Untethered Soul is indeed one of the finest treatments of the nature and practice of the conscious use of consciousness that I have ever read…. It is the clearest statement I know of who we are and what we face in our emerging humanity.” – Jean Houston
Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life, Byron Katie. Harmony. “Remember the phrase ‘question authority’? Loving What Is is a workbook on questioning authority–but in this case, what is in question is the authority of our own fundamental beliefs…” – Jill Lightner