- So after you've had all these lessons,
what do you do?
There's different roads to the career.
One is the competition route,
which works for some people really well.
You win a competition, you start to become known,
that's one way.
Another way is, some of these summer apprentice programs.
Like Sante Fe Opera, for example,
you go there to be an apprentice.
But the key part of that summer program
is the auditions they do toward the end of the summer.
They have a day of auditions
where they have managers come in,
people from all these different opera companies,
that come and hear you.
And that day is the key to the whole summer.
From there you can get work.
Of course, word of mouth is a big way of getting work.
Once you work with someone, if they liked you.
The old, sending out of resume's doesn't work very well
for an opera career.
Someone has to have heard you or heard about you.
So its finding your way in,
either through an apprentice program
through a competition or just through word of mouth
of who you've worked with.