Ten Year Teaching Anniversary

"No one wants to hire a soprano who also has to do yard work." What led me to an early career teaching voice and how it has shifted over the decade.

In 2012, only ten years into my career, I could see that with the current recession in the arts still raging, I would need supplemental income. During the height of the roaring early 2000s, I was making anywhere from $5,000 to $8,000 per performance. I bought a house in 2005 and was saving for retirement and affording my own health care before the Affor…