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Hiring a Consultant
Patricia C. Compton
Trustees bring a wealth of professional expertise to the board's collective effort. For example, financial, legal and marketing skills contribute to the effective functioning of any opera company. Sometimes, however, issues arise that call for fresh thinking and/or new strategies.

Is this the time to consider hiring a consultant?
Advocacy & Public Policy Update
About OPERA America's Advocacy Efforts Latest News & Alerts
OPERA America represents the interests of the opera community before Congress, the White House and federal agencies. As a founding member of the Performing Arts Alliance, OPERA America works with the performing arts field to advocate for the development of national policies that recognize and strengthen the contributions that the arts make to America.

For more information on OPERA America’s advocacy activities, please contact OPERA America’s Government Affairs Office at 202-375-7523.
What Does Audience Engagement Really Mean?
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
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Visa Processing for Foreign Guest Artists
Jonathan Ginsburg and Andi Floyd, FTM Arts Law
Fundraising for Independent Artists
Dianne Debicella, program director, fiscal sponsorship, Fractured Atlas; Eve Gigliotti, mezzo-soprano; Anne Ricci, general managing diva, Opera on Tap
Taxing Foreign Artists
Robyn Guilliams, FTM Arts Law attorney, Larry Bomback, Director of Finance, OPERA America, Amy Fitterer, Director of Government Affairs, OPERA America
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Build a Killer Website: 19 Dos and Don'ts
By Ilya Pozin • Inc. • Friday, February 03, 2012
At bottom your website is a marketing tool. For many businesses, it’s the only source of business. If done right, it can be a major part of yours.

Here’s my quick-hit list of the top dos and don’ts before you get started.
Happy Birthday to: Martina Arroyo
By Contirbutor • A Liberal's Libretto • Friday, February 03, 2012
Ms. Martina was born in New York City on this day in 1937. The younger of two children of Demetrio Arroyo, an immigrant from Puerto Rico, and Lucille Washington, a native of Charleston, South Carolina, Ms. Martina enjoyed much success as a soprano - but, it might not have been.
Houston Grand Opera goes through three tenors in La Traviata: Day saved with little rehearsal
By Whitney Radley • CultureMap Houston • Thursday, February 02, 2012
As they say, the show must go on.
Four Music Entrepreneurs: How do they do it?
By Astrid Baumgardner • Music at Yale • Thursday, February 02, 2012
This wonderful group of artists showed that it is indeed possible to make one’s way in the world as a musician, and that there are many different paths to creating career success. Here are some of the top lessons that I gleaned from their remarks, which center on the themes of knowing your mission and purpose, proactively creating your own opportunities and making your luck happen, nurturing relationships, taking risks, maintaining high standards and working hard at your career development.
Growing Pains
By Dan Visconti • NewMusicBox • Thursday, February 02, 2012
There is such a thing as reaching for the next rung of the career ladder too early, as in the case of the over-eager self-promoting student, or buying a lot of expensive printing equipment when you print out only a few scores each year. Yet there comes a time for every composer when one must either expand or else stifle development: when works are receiving some performances but there’s nowhere online for someone to listen to or purchase the composer’s music, or when it’s time to create a separate checking account just for composing travel and expenses. It seems to me that there are paths that overemphasize each extreme—pushing to expand too rapidly when it is not helpful, or failing to make the necessary changes and investments when old ways are holding us back. Composers would do well to stay attentive to their own needs right now, and not what their peers, friends, and competitors are doing.
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Winter 2012 Magazine Issue
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  • The National Opera Center
  • Recently Published
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