Opera Career Discussions

Kristen Seikaly on blogging and following your ❤️

Kristen Seikaly is a blogger, content writer, and creative writer. She also happens to be an ex-opera singer. She’s got a MM from Westminster Choir College in Voice Performance and Pedagogy and has performed in venues such as the Kimmel Center and Academy of Music, and has participated in operatic productions with companies such as…

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Amelia Wilber’s ‘so-called opera life’… on HER terms.

If you’ve sung in the Philadelphia area, odds are you’ve worked with Amelia Wilber. She’s a soprano and she’s sung with many of the Philly area companies and choruses: The Philadelphia Symphonic Choir, OperaDelaware, The Princeton Singers, Delaware Valley Opera Company, to name a few.  Amelia is also a kind, insightful, thoughtful person and being…

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12 Websites for Opera Singers

As a freelance singer, I find that I am on the computer A LOT. When I’m not practicing or at rehearsal, the internet is where I do my work: looking for auditions, applying for jobs, writing emails (my boyfriend says I am a professional email writer), updating social media so you look like you’re doing…

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Deciding on Pay-to-Sing Programs

No one wants to do a Pay-to-Sing–not unless you have millions of dollars tucked away somewhere. Don’t get me wrong, I’d love to learn from wonderful teachers in some quaint town in Tuscany every summer, but  a) I can’t afford it, and b) it is really going to progress my career? When I graduated from…

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Women in Opera Meet-up

On February 25, I hosted an opera meet-up I called “Women in Opera Unite!” and invited a bunch of cool women opera singers living in NYC. The invite read: You are invited to this because you are an awesome person doing awesome things to further your career, and I would like to invite you to…

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