May 27, 2022 | Singing and Self Blog
“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek” –Joseph Campbell Tonight is the opening night of Three Decembers at Winnipeg’s Little Opera Company and this past week has been a rollercoaster of doubt, fear, excitement, triumph,...May 20, 2022 | Singing and Self Blog
One more stream to ford (Kimberly Barber, April 2021) I’m not sure why I thought it would be trouble-free to return to rehearsing live opera after a 5 year hiatus…seriously! What was I thinking?!?! The last major production I did was for Tapestry Opera in...May 13, 2022 | Singing and Self Blog
Me and my gals: Magic Flute Opening Night, May 6, 2022 (from left: KB, Midori Marsh, Jamie Groote–photo Anna Ronai) So…not sure if I should say it, given all the talk about boundaries in recent posts. But I can’t help myself: I am so proud of these...May 6, 2022 | Singing and Self Blog
A fine line 2.0 (Kimberly Barber, May 2022) Last week’s post seemed to generate some interest amongst readers (thanks for writing, folks!), so I thought I’d keep riffing on this business of line-drawing in the teacher-student relationship. It’s a...Apr 29, 2022 | Singing and Self Blog
A fine line (April, 2022) Singing is vulnerable stuff. And as it turns out, teaching singing is pretty vulnerable stuff too. Teaching and learning are such deeply integrative processes that it is sometimes difficult to discern where the line between them is. The...Apr 8, 2022 | The Disowned (Singing) Self
Photo by Bo Huang (2019) We can only dance with the one who brung us. Namely, ourselves. Try as we might to be someone different, wedge ourselves into a box that seems more palatable, our voices will always resist this crime against nature. I know, because I have...
