A lot of good stuff can happen to you, and it can even happen all at once. My life is something of an embarrassment of riches at the moment, and I'm really trying not to take anything for granted. I'm about to have a baby -- literally, about to have...

This may seem like a no-brainer since most artists tend to be the NPR-listening, PBS-watching, artsy fartsy liberal types. However, I did notice that a few of my facebook friends (okay, eight out of 650) "liked" Mitt Romney, and with the race in a statistical dead heat, I'm guessing there...

Sometimes keeping things small can really pay off.

I first became acquainted with the Gotham Chamber Opera just over 10 years ago when my best friend Georgia was hired to sing a role in their inaugural production; Mozart's Il Sogno di Scipione, directed by Christopher Alden. At the time,...

After my last blog post about being an opera singer ended up being surprisingly controversial (there have been articles about gay marriage and abortion that have inspired far fewer inflammatory comments), I thought I would follow it up with something a bit lighter and more entertaining. Specifically: How...

If I'm in a good mood, I'm one of those people who chats with strangers. Shop clerks, waiters, baristas, shoe salesmen, you name it -- if I'm feeling friendly, I'll start a conversation with any of them about the weather or what I'm buying or my favorite foods. And if...

This post is part of Spring for Music's Great Arts Blogger Challenge, which posed a series of questions to bloggers and had readers vote on their favorites, narrowing it down from 42 bloggers to, currently, the final four. Three judges -- Katrine Ames, former senior editor at Newsweek;...