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Living Opera actively contributes to the production of new research around the role of fine arts in society and, importantly, in education. As an illustration of our scientific work, we published a handbook chapter that explains how art and music education in early childhood plays an integral role in advancing cognitive skills, social skills, and habit formation.
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Technology
October 14, 2022
Here’s how Magic Mozart NFT will fund artists through micro grants
Arts and cultural institutions received $23.5 billion in charitable donations, approximately 5% of the $484.85 billion in 2021. Unfortunately, these donations rarely flow through to the artists, nor are there any sufficient grant making bodies that can operate at the scale or pace needed to help artists receive the resources they need to become financially independent, let alone succeed.
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Music
February 9, 2022
How to enjoy an opera!
These tips apply to concerts too! We hope you have an amazing time at the theater very soon!
Lessons
(Coaching / Training / Consultation)
We're passionate about seeing others live to their full potential and reaching their goals! We offer three types of services to help you get to the next level in your artistic journey, including voice coaching, career consultations, and multimedia/social media training.
Voice lesson
We view ourselves as an additional set of ears to your existing team. We want to work together to maximize the vision you have with your current voice teacher, and add value wherever we can with our particular set of expertise.
*If you don't see the time you want, please email us at: hello@livingopera.org and we will do our best to accommodate your schedule!
Career consultations
Are you wondering how to build your career and don't know where to begin? Feeling stuck about your next move? We would love to strategize with you about your future! We always work from a "best-case scenario" standpoint, while still being realistic about the business of music. We are happy to work with non-singers as well!
Media training
Ever wondered how to build a personal brand from scratch? Create media materials? Get more engagement on social media? Write a CV/Bio/Emails? Soula would be happy to help you with your personal brand strategy!
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Maja
Sprano, Croatia
Create a culture of personal excellence" might be the best thought to describe the power of Living Opera project and community. The willingness to share their valuable experience and knowledge is what makes Soula and Norman so different. It feels great to be a part of highly professional and yet warm and welcoming community.
It gives me motivation to learn and practice even more, as well as enjoy while discovering my journey as a singer and an artist. Norman and Soula's mentorship has been of a great value to me.
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Manda
Sprano, Croatia
A combination of skill, experience, compassion, honesty and enthusiasm is my thought of an artist, singer and mentor. Soula and Norman share a spirit of possibility, unselfishness, support, authenticity transmitting their vocal, artistic and human brilliance. I am honoured to be a member of this community and part of its journey.
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Ivy
Soprano, USA
A place where you can ask questions, a place where you are fully supported, a place full of positivity and bright minds: that's the Living Opera community. The reality of this job is a lot more complicated than we're taught in school. Living Opera puts out tons of relevant information for the modern singer and has continually empowered me to find my niche in this industry.
Francisca
Bassoonist, Portugal
I noticed Living Opera a while ago and at first I started following because I’m a big opera fan and was curious, but ended up staying and engaging with Soula and Norman because, besides the quality technical content for singers, (we instrumentalists are fascinated by this too by the way!), they are very inspiring. They are skilled professionals in a very competitive job, that look around, ask questions, and are open to creating and working on the solutions. In is an empowering community that I can’t wait to see grow!
Who we are
Soula Parassidis
Greek-Canadian operatic soprano Soula Parassidis is an entrepreneur, anti-humantrafficking advocate, and producer. She has appeared on stage in the world's major performance venues and is the CEO of Living Opera.
Norman Reinhardt
American operatic tenor Norman Reinhardt has been a fixture of the international stage for nearly 20 years. He is a producer and the director of education for Living Opera.
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Christos Makridis
Christos Makridis is a professor, entrepreneur, and social scientist with over 50 peer reviewed academic papers and 100 op-eds in the popular press. He is the COO of Living Opera.
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For universities
Living Opera would love to partner with your school! We offer competative pricing and flexible packages based on the needs of your students. In addition to our flagship course Beyond Your Big Break, we also offer online and in person masterclasses, voice lessons, seminars, and Q&A sessions on singing, entrepreneurship, and branding.
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