Next in our Audition series: planning and organizing your audition tour. Our editor shares a few tips from his time on the road.

Audition season is picking up, and singers all over the US are flying to far-flung cities to try to book work for the upcoming season. In this column, we share tips for planning and budgeting for audition travel, which can really make a difference when resources are scarce.

In the first post in our Auditions series, Claire DiVizio, Executive and Artistic Director of Chicago's Thompson Street Opera Company, shares some valuable insights about auditions from the standpoint of the person doing the casting: what she looks for, what she prioritizes (it isn't what you think), and what turns her off of a singer.

This week’s column is a fitting pivot between YAP Applications and our October Audition series, and details the elements of the singer’s most important document: The Résumé.

This week, the YAP Bootcamp looks at the application process as a whole: what's required, and what preparation you can do ahead of time to conserve your resources and make the whole process run smoothly.

In the third installment of our YAP Application Bootcamp, we detail an oft-overlooked strategy for strategically building a career while leveraging limited financial resources: Research.

This week, our YAP Bootcamp brings you a sortable list of paid American YAPs — over 50 — to help you start to strategize application season.

All summer long, we are running this YAP Bootcamp series to introduce our readers to this mainstay of the American singer training process. As the summer progresses, our readers will learn how YAPs function, which companies have YAPs, how to find them, how to apply, and how to ensure that their application materials are top-shelf ...

Our first month at the blog, and we’re diving right in!

June. School's out for summer. You may only have one more year until you're thrust cruelly out of the comfort of academia and into the unpredictable world of professional singing. If you and your teacher have determined that it's time ...

Ah, tax season… opera singers tend to dread it—and of course, I understand why. Primarily getting paid as a freelancer means the people paying you usually don’t take taxes out of your check, which can make for a complicated—and costly—April if you’re not prepared. And let’s face it, we’re never prepared.