BSR Blog

Singing While Sick


So we're all sick this year, right? I mean, I've been coughing since October, and I know I'm not the only one because I see you all on Facebook posting about the same damn thing.

A Few More Audition Tips


All, as we begin the screaming descent into audition season, here are a few more takeaways from recent auditing experiences for your consideration. Happy Singing!

Comments!


Friends, I just discovered that this here system has been diverting legit comments into the spam folder and deleting them. So if you've commented and it didn't appear, I never saw it!

The Art of the Decline


Singers can't take every opportunity that comes along. Well, we can certainly try- but we shouldn't, because sanity.

A Quick Tip on Social Media


Something I'm hearing pretty frequently these days from fellow company directors and organizers is that due to our powerful social media tools, we can have a pretty fair idea of what singers are ac

Ready for My Close-Up, Mr. DeMille


Video clips! Singers, you now need video clips.

On Cancelling


Wouldn't it be great if on our first day at conservatory we were handed a how-to guide for singers, something like a Miss Manners etiquette book for the music industr

On Rejection


So you didn't get that gig you really wanted.

Success...


A number of singers I know - fine singers...in fact, excellent singers - think of themselves as having failed in opera, or indeed in professional singing as a whole, because they're not working ful