Elisabeth Kisselstein - Music Studio

SUNY Oswego Private Lessons SUNY Oswego Class Voice Private Music Studio Elisabeth Kisselstein, soprano

Links Page Performance Bibliography Handouts

Links

Career Preparation

Actor's Equity This is the official web site for the actors' union. You can keep track of industry news and auditions via this website. The news and audition pages are free.

Backstage An industry newspaper for non-operatic theater. The site has many other options not available in print. Paid.

College and Career Prep for Performing Arts Students and Their Parents This page contains handouts I developed for career days at public schools with the help of other industry professionals.

Opera America Many opera companies in the United States belong to this organization. They also have individual memberships for singers, with booklets on career guidance that you can order. Paid.

Playbill Another great site for non-operatic performers. Make sure you don't miss the job postings!

Yap Tracker A wonderful site hosting auditions for young artists' programs, competitons, masterclasses, and more. Paid.

Companies I've Worked With

Broadway Palm West

Bucks County Playhouse

Civic Morning Musicals A Syracuse area classical music organization since 1889. They currently sponsor a free recital series every Wednesday at the Everson Museum in Syracuse, New York, as well as the Sundays in Recital series (ticket prices on their website)

Cortland Repertory Theatre I was fortunate to work on Music Man and Fiddler on the Roof with CRT. The enthusiastic audiences more than made up for the run of rainy weather we had!

Fireside Theater A wonderful dinner theater out in Wisconsin a couple of hours north of Chicago. Well worth your audition time.

Full Cast Audio A book-on-tape company started up by popular children's author Bruce Coville (My Teacher is an Alien, The Ghost in the Third Row, etc). Daytimes during the run of Music Man found me working with Bruce, Tamora Pierce, et al on the audio book version of her book Wild Magic, the first book of The Immortals series. Rather than one person doing all the characters, Full Cast uses, well, a cast of characters and a narrator. I loved working on this project!

Open Hand Puppet Theater Open Hand Theater worked in conjunction with Syracuse Opera on The Magic Flute in the Spring of 2004. The effects they developed were pretty cool for this challenging production.

Oswego Opera Theater Company, Inc. The first company to hire me professionally, thanks to Doc Soluri.

Syracuse Opera The bulk of my work for SO was with an amazing group of people in the outreach division. I've also participated in some amazing mainstage productions as well as had the opportunity to work on a couple of G&S roles for the summer concert in the Thornden Park amphitheater.

Theater at Monmouth

Language, Diction and Other Free Online Education

Barnes and Noble University Free book clubs in almost every subject you could want.

Course Pal Listing of online courses in a wide variety of subjects - some are free.

The Diction Domain If you have any diction questions at all, this site will at least have a link to sites where you can get information - I even found info on pronouncing Middle English when I was researching a song cycle for my recital. You can also find fonts for your computer - I found a bunch of *free* Cyrillic fonts for my independent study in Russian diction one semester. You can even satisfy your curiosity about Tolkien's languages and Klingon.

Gutenberg Free ebooks - I even found literature by Eleanor Glynn. If you know your Music Man movie trivia, you'll know that Shirley Jones tells Hermione Gingold "Wouldn't you have your daughter read The Rubaiyat of Omar Kayyam than Eleanor Glynn?" They have her works. Who knew?

I Love Languages There are over 2000 language links in this site.

Learning Languages The gentleman who is behind this site is from Switzerland and speaks several languages. This site details the things he's learned about learning a language during his studies.

Learn That Another online course site.

Live Mocha Social networking site for language learning.

My Language Exchange You sign up for free, list the languages you want to work on and what your native language is, and people will contact you looking for penpals to help them practice and to help you practice your target languages. They charge a fee to let you be the one doing the contacting. Also has games to help you learn.

VoxSwap Social networking site for language learning.

Word2Word Go to this site and click on the "Free Online Language Courses" to start.

Performance Preparation

Aria Database A good starting place to learn about the arias you want to study. Just don't use it as an excuse not to do some serious leg work of your own!

Art Song Central

Bach Cantatas

cantabile-subito.de

Classical Midi with Words The companion site to "Lied and Song Texts".

Contributions to the Lieder Repetoire 1900-1999 The title says it all. Lists are by decade, composer, and, in some cases, publisher.

Dramatists Play Service If you need to know the author of a play, this is the place to go.

Early Music FAQ

Finale Notepad Cheap and downloadable version of the composing software.

Footlight Parade A weekly radio show all about musical theater. It can be listened to on the web, or on Sundays at 3pm on FM 91.3 in the Syracuse area.

Gilbert and Sullivan Archive Anything you need to know about Gilbert and Sullivan.

Good Ear- Online Ear Training Site This site uses QuickTime in its trainers. It's totally free.

Handel - Händel - Haendel - Hendel

Lied and Song Texts Page There are thousands of translations on this site. It's cross-referenced by composer, title, poet, language, first lines, and song cycles. If you need to do research for a recital, this is a great place to start.

Musique et musiciens/Music and Musicians

Music Library - Research Links If you have a research paper for a music course, just stop complaining, do your research and get it done!

The Musical Theater Project

Online Resources for Music Scholars from Harvard University

Operabase

OperaGlass

Opera Stuff Anything you need to know on opera is here.

Ricci Adams musictheory.net I've used this site with my private students as well as to improve my own ear training. It's also free, and has a downloadable version.

Yale University Library: Irving S. Gilmore Music Library

Performers Web Sites

Laura Claycomb This should be a primary source of career information for all prospective opera singers.

Judy Kaye I was priviledged to see Judy Kaye as Emma Goldstein in Ragtime, and love her solo CDs.

Audra McDonald At the same time I saw Judy Kaye, I was able to see Audra McDonald in a riveting performance.

Maureen McGovern I was privileged to meet Ms. McGovern after an amazing performance in Little Women. Be sure to check the link to her Works of Heart Misson.

Karen Mercedes, Contralto This is the home page of a contralto that has tons of great links and some pages that have great ideas on repertoire for all kinds of voices.

Cindy Sadler Cindy recently developed a seperate site for her Business of Singing. Just do yourself a favor and take the time to read through everything.

Shopping for Performers

Classical Vocal Repertoire/Reprints Do yourself a favor and just call Glendower Jones when you are looking for something. Reminder:The web site only contains a fraction of what he carries! He either has it, or knows where to find it if it's truly available. Call him.

Discount Dance Supply A good place to go for a wide variety of dancewear.

Drama BookShop Down on 40th STreet now, between 7th and 8th Aves in New York City.

TIS Music

Online Sheet Music Resources

Caveat: With any free sheet music, you need to countercheck to make sure there are no mistakes/you have the correct edition.

The Choral Public Domain Library Free Sheet Music Archive

ChoralWiki

Free Sheet Music Downloads Warehouse of links to other sites.

Free Sheet Music Library

Free Sheet Music Templates

IMSLP - Petrucci Music Library

Music-Scores.com Contains MIDI files.