1/ Uncontrolled stress and anxiety in other areas of life can affect your concentration in performance.
2/ Undue stress can lead to an inability to remember words and music.
3/ Mental stress is contagious in performance, with disastrous effects on both your audience and fellow artists.
“ The singer, in an act of creation, experiences a nervous tension arising from the responsibility to the initial creators, the composer and librettist. What I encourage singers to do is to dedicate the experience of tension as energy towards creation. "
