by Alyssa | Jan 27, 2026 | BSR Insights
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 full-time in the field. This has been really...
by Alyssa | Jan 27, 2026 | BSR Insights
So you didn’t get that gig you really wanted. You worked really hard to prepare and now there won’t be another chance to sing for them again until next year and AARGH. There are limited opportunities, there are so many gatekeepers, it’s...
by Alyssa | Jan 27, 2026 | BSR Insights
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 industry? Yes! That would be amazing! If only that were the case! And yet? It is not. Cue sad trombone....
by Alyssa | Jan 27, 2026 | BSR Insights
Video clips! Singers, you now need video clips. And if you’ve been slow to upgrade your phone to the 5S or whatever your non-Apple version of “the latest and greatest” is, then wait ye no longer because wow, as professional tools those things are...
by Alyssa | Jan 27, 2026 | BSR Insights
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 actually doing when they’ve declined or cancelled something....
by Alyssa | Jan 27, 2026 | BSR Insights
Singers can’t take every opportunity that comes along. Well, we can certainly try- but we shouldn’t, because sanity. And of course we can’t take offers for multiple gigs on the same day or pro bono opportunities we can’t afford or roles that...
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