Singing For Your Supper: What They Don'T Teach You In School About An Opera Career

Dan Montez

ISBN 10: 0980190525 / ISBN 13: 9780980190526

Published by Whole Note Publishing, 2008

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Singing For Your Supper: What They Don'T Teach You In School About An Opera Career
• Publisher: Whole Note Publishing
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0980190525
• ISBN 13: 9780980190526
• Binding: Paperback / softback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 243 grams

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Synopsis

Finally, a book has been written for those who want to become professional singers and who understand that educational institutions won't teach them everything they need to know. Singing for Your Supper: What they Don't Teach in School about an Opera Career will guide you through both the singing and business skills you will need to have a career in opera. You will learn: *The vocal secrets and techniques you will not get in school *How to audition, write a resume, and get an agent *How to move and act on stage like a professional *How to build experience *How to stay in business as a performer and MAKE MONEY!

About the Author

Dan Montez has been an opera singer and stage director for twenty-five years. He has performed principal roles in or directed more than one hundred productions and has appeared in numerous houses, including San Francisco Opera, Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center. For over a decade, he has been General Director of Taconic Opera in New York state, and is also a concert pianist, conductor, composer, and pedagogue. He recently published Don't Believe it: How to follow your dreams in spite of those who say you can't and has been a featured cover story in magazines including Classical Singer and Norman Vincent Peale's Positive Living.