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Consider Consideration OR Tips on Upgrading Your Ability to be a Suitable Colleague
by Melissa Wimbish In our final week of upgrading, can we just review some of the basic rules of being a good colleague? That’s my Question of the Week. Oh, and this is going to be the feature today because it’s important. Let me get on this soap box right quick with a little Top [...]
Question of the Week
by Melissa Wimbish Please share your thoughts on the following Question of the Week by leaving your comments below: What is one of the most important qualities of a good colleague? If you’d like to read more about my thoughts, check out today’s feature. (Only if you’re in the mood for slight bitchiness.)
Competition Listings Update: January 27
by Christie Connolley Are you tired of paying fees to access competition notices? So are we! Every Friday morning, Operagasm presents a fresh update of competition listings. We would be happy to include your competition notice in a full story during the week and/or in the Friday listing, please submit your notice by emailing competitions@operagasm.com. [...]
Operagasm Exclusive: The Art of the Bass
Operagasm readers are the best critics! Each month we feature two exclusive reviews so that you have the inside scoop before taking out your cash money. Sounds like this one is a gem — check out the verdict from one of our favorite basses, Matthew Scrivner. Don’t forget to check back in tomorrow when we’ll [...]
Competition Listings Update: January 20
by Christie Connolley Are you tired of paying fees to access competition notices? So are we! Every Friday morning, Operagasm presents a fresh update of competition listings. We would be happy to include your competition notice in a full story during the week and/or in the Friday listing, please submit your notice by emailing competitions@operagasm.com. [...]
Competition Listings Update: December 30
by Christie Connolley Are you tired of paying fees to access competition notices? So are we! Every Friday morning, Operagasm presents a fresh update of competition listings. We would be happy to include your competition notice in a full story during the week and/or in the Friday listing, please submit your notice by emailing competitions@operagasm.com. [...]
Radvanovsky and Hvorostovsky Represent!
Bringing you the best recording reviews of 2011! Review: Verdi Opera Scenes, Sondra Radvanovsky and Dmitri Hvorostovsky; Philharmonia of Russia; Constantine Orbelian, conductor by Wade Davis We all know how gorgeous Dmitri Hvovorstovsky is, vocally and physically (have you seen him as Onegin with Renee Fleming as Tatiana??), so there really is no need to elaborate [...]
Word of the Week
Bringing you the best of 2011! by Melissa Wimbish “Das it!!!!” Okay, that’s more than one word, but Maurica Rodriguez does what she wants and I’m just fine with that. I probably shouldn’t post a clip of this genius in action because it might offend someone, but if you have a liberal sense of humor, [...]
There’s No Such Thing as “Crossover”
by Marisa del Campo As a child I was always amazed by musical theater singers, as that is what I was mainly exposed to growing up. How much fun they seemed to have, how much I understood them, and how powerful they were always left me speechless. My first real experience with opera singers didn’t [...]
Musical Term of the Week
Bringing you the best of 2011! by Melissa Wimbish Everybody has a special place in their hearts for Sister Act II! If you don’t, just play along. No month of joy would be complete without revisiting Lauryn Hill’s epic retelling of the gospel standard “Joyful, Joyful” featured in one of the final scenes. Enjoy lovely [...]
