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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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Moving Past Technique to Performing Artist
By David Anderson
Technique got you here. Presence will take you further. When preparation is complete, the real work begins: letting go of control and stepping fully into the moment. Discover how to quiet the thinking mind, trust your training, and become not just a singer—but a performing artist.
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Take A Beat
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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Collect and Reset Yourself
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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Distractions - Distortions - Delete!
By Carol Kirkpatrick
Ever think about why things are not happening in your world, relationships, career and life when others around you seem to be organizing and orchestrating their lives toward their goals? You too might have gone to all the workshops or summer programs and gotten the same information, gone home and thought about how to apply […]
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Welcome Back to the Real World
By Carol Kirkpatrick
That wonderful musical cocoon you have been in while participating in whatever summer program you have chosen has or is about to wind down. It has been an amazing experience and you have been nurtured and surrounded by fellow musicians who are for the most part, of like mind. You have been allowed to leave […]
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The Art of Staying Healthy
By Carol Kirkpatrick
Staying healthy requires balance within three areas of your life: mind, body and spirit. Each is a very important component in and of itself, but when one of these areas gets out of balance it often causes our immune system to falter allowing us to catch whatever is going around. I want to share with […]
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Take a Break and Relax - Your guide to taking a mental vacation
By Carol Kirkpatrick
When was the last time you took a break from even thinking about singing or your career? Have you ever given yourself permission to take a mental vacation from singing? Even if you have to continue earning a living, you need a break or vacation from living this double life as bread earner and singer. […]
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The Essence of Time
By Carol Kirkpatrick
There are so many people out there telling us how to best control, invest, and spend our money, but one rarely hears about how to control, invest and spend our 24 hours each day; how to actually live on 24 hours a day. The supply of time is a miracle when you think about it. […]
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Performance Anxiety
By Carol Kirkpatrick
As a singer, performing was what I lived for. I loved being the character and telling the story by becoming part of it. I felt as if I were the one making the music happen and making the story unfold. I felt totally immersed in the emotional movement of the music and story; that my […]
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