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The Aria Ready blog contains over two decades of monthly posts aimed at teaching emerging professional singers how to become a fully-formed artistic professional in today's world of Opera.
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Updating Your Brat
By David Anderson
By David Anderson
Your inner critic isn’t the enemy — it’s an outdated protector still trying to keep you safe. Learn how to recognize, understand, and update your “Brat” so your inner dialogue becomes a productive partnership rather than a source of sabotage.
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Take A Beat
By David Anderson
By David Anderson
DO THIS EXPERIMENT: TAKE A BEAT AND CONSIDER CHANGING WORDS & LABELS. Search out places where you may have labelled something or someone that may no longer belong under that label. The first part of the year is a great time to reevaluate and update the people, processes, and past results in your business and in your personal life, so they are more in line with who you are today and where you plan to be by year’s end.
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Doubts About Opera's Value? Here's Why Your Passion Is The Solution The World Is Looking For.
By David Anderson
By David Anderson
A few weeks ago, my neighbor and I had the distinct pleasure of being in the audience for both Rigoletto and Die Walküre at The Santa Fe Opera. During our time there, we each heard several people discuss the arts in general, but opera specifically, and how, in today’s world, it can almost seem quaint. […]
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Give Up The Fixed Mindset
By Carol Kirkpatrick
By Carol Kirkpatrick
People with a fixed mindset think their talents and intelligence are simply fixed traits, and that talent alone creates success — without effort. They’re wrong. It takes making lots of mistakes and failing over and over again until you can tease out a kernel of something that rings like truth and comes from deep within. Getting to […]
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The Power of Distractions and Emotional Weight That Goes With It
By Carol Kirkpatrick
By Carol Kirkpatrick
Happy New Year! Begin this New Year with power, optimism, and new way to look at how you think about what you think. Never before in human history have we been the recipients of so much information designed to fill us with ideas, desires, and distractions. The news of the world good, bad or indifferent […]
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Step Up and Forge Your Own Path
By Carol Kirkpatrick
By Carol Kirkpatrick
How responsible are you for what’s happening in your life right now? Are you just going with the flow? Are you forever in an emotional state that keeps you distracted? Do you often blame others for what is or is not happening in your life? Often with new students or during consultations, I hear and […]
personal development
branding
confidence
disappointment
emotions
fear
frustration
habits
job
personal brand
personality
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Audition and Performance Anxiety
By Carol Kirkpatrick
By Carol Kirkpatrick
Audition and performance anxiety is an evolutionary throwback — one that can be directly tied to our more primal neurological heritage; it’s called fight or flight. This fear that is elicited by stage fright ignites the body's fight-or-flight response, which is what brings about its various physical and physiological manifestations. Essentially, it's the perceived sense […]
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Collect and Reset Yourself
By Carol Kirkpatrick
By Carol Kirkpatrick
Has there ever been a time when toward the end of an especially challenging day, you felt compelled to sit, close your eyes and try to calm your body and quiet your mind because you had an important audition or performance two hours from now? Are you having trouble with this? Is your anxiety level […]
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It’s Just a Job! It’s Not Emotional or Personal
By Carol Kirkpatrick
By Carol Kirkpatrick
There are many, many programs and services out there for singers today, but too much of a good thing can also be overwhelming. I've heard from my own students that they can often feel confused and unsure which programs are worth their resources of time, energy and money. As is the case with my students, […]
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