Darren Keith Woods’ Audition Admonitions!

Click here to see what Darren Keith Woods, director of Fort Worth Opera and former professional singer, has to sshapeimage_1ay about what he looks for in auditions. Here are his Ten Commandments.…

Opera-Online (Die Zauberflöte)

Young Texan Laura  Claycomb is  a poisonous, dramatic queen of the night and her appearence is impressing, lifted up by hydrolic power over the audience.

-Helmut Pitsch

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2. Reality of Lifestyle for a Free-Lance Singer

P1140577The reality of life is that your operatic career is a business like any other, and some aspects of it must be treated as such. Work breeds work. If you’re not in the “market,” you will most likely not get …

Studies – choose your path

Different Paths

There are different roads for different people – every singer I know has a different story of how he or she started a career. There is NO ONE sure-fire way, and I have by no means outlined every …

Opera Magazine – Golden Cockerel (Bergen)

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“The disquieting gloom of the music that opens Act 2 was reflected in a blasted landscape, scattered with dead princes and dead soldiers, now carrion for two greedy vultures, but the mood changed with the arrival of the exotic Queen

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Ariadne auf Naxos DVD (Glyndebourne)

Cast Soile Isokoski, Laura Claycomb, Sergey Skorokhodov, Thomas Allen, Kate Lindsey

Glyndebourne’s wartime history as a home for evacuee children is the ingenious context for a new production of this unclassifiable entertainment in which a low comedy and high tragedy …

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  • Hi Laura Hello from Singapore! Big fan of your technique videos and performances on Youtube. Been a singer for about

  • Hello Ms Claycomb, hope everything is well with you. i am Tata, live in Boston and study vocal. I found your v

  • Hi Laura, It has been great to find this. I have admired you since our days in NATS (I was in OK at OCU). I don't know i

  • Many thanks for thinking of me!! :-)

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