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Episode 30: The Creative Vision Behind Jennie Moser’s New Tool-  Stagetime

Season Four! Let’s Gooooooo! We’re back and so excited to kick off the new season with Jennie Moser, the creative mind behind Stagetime!  As a singer herself, Jennie was often frustrated with how networking tools like LinkedIn don’t quite serve a freelancer’s needs, and saw how her colleagues struggled with their DIY websites. Having a…

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Episode 27: Marketing the Modern Opera Singer with Daniel Welch

We are so glad to continue our third season with this incredible conversation with Daniel Welch of Ideodyssey, New Classical Artist Management (NCAM) and the Opera Biz Podcast. Daniel is a multi-passionate mover and shaker in the opera industry, who is looking to marry modern marketing techniques to the opera biz! He shares his story…

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Episode 15: Content Creation in the Time of COVID with Matthew Maisano (aka the FAB drag queen✨Balena Canto✨)

🏳️‍🌈 Happy Pride! 🏳️‍🌈 On today’s show we sit down with the fabulous baritone Matthew Maisano to talk about his parallel career as the enchanting drag queen known as Balena Canto. During quarantine, Matthew and Balena have been incredibly active, exploring different ways to produce online concerts, contests, and drag shows.  He shares with us…

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A Call to Action and Resources to Center BIPOC Voices in the Opera Industry

Black Lives Matter. For too long, the opera industry has participated in violence towards BIPOC. Blackface, brownface, and yellowface are common occurrences even at the highest levels of our art form. Singers of color are too often only used as performative tokenism, their pain is used for profit, and their voices are relegated to the…

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BONUS EPISODE: COVID 😷 Part 1

We’re back and podcasting in the time of COVID! First up on this bonus episode, we share some updates for the podcast! Most importantly, Season 2 is COMING SOON! We’re so excited to be recording again and we can’t wait to share the new episodes with you all. A release date for our first episode…

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Resources for Freelance Artists/Musicians during the COVID-19 Pandemic

In the midst of COVID-19, there is so much uncertainty, chaos, rumor, and fear. For the past week, I’ve been seeing so much information being posted and shared and re-posted and shared again. It can be overwhelming. Even writing this was overwhelming. But it’s so important to sift through and find what you need.  I’ve…

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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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