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THE STUDENTS
Eva Maria Westbroek,soprano
"James McCray opened the door to my voice, and therefore made it possible for me
to live my biggest dream!"
Covent Garden, Stuttgart, The Metropolitan Opera, La Scala di Milano, Teatro San Carlo di Napoli,
Opera de Paris, San Francisco Opera, Wiener Staatsoper, Liceo de Barcelona,Teatro Real Madrid, Dutch Opera, Frankfurt
Am Main, Stuttgart, Saltzburger Festspiele, Bayreuter Festspiele, etc.
Frank van Aken, Tenor
"With all of his experience as a singer, and especially as a tenor, in addition to knowing all there
is to know about the function of the human voice, James McCrays help for me was, and still is of immeasurable value, and makes
him my vocal father."
Frankfurt, Sttutgart, Covent Garden, Dusseldorf, Bayreuther Festspiele, Bayerische Staatsoper, The
Metropolitan Opera, La Scala di MIlano, Wiener Staatsoper, Dusseldorf, Bayreuter Festspiele, etc...
Anooshah Golesorkhi, Baritone
"James McCray is one of the only vocal paedagogues whose teaching maintains the link to the golden
age of opera and sininging. If one desires to learn the kind of vocal technique used by virtually all of the truly great of
italian opera especially the second golden age (Tebaldi, Del Monaco, Corelli, Bastianini, Siepi, etc) one need look no further
than James McCray!"
The Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, The Deustch Oper, Opera di Roma, Bayerische Staatsoper,
Vienna Staatsoper etc.
Jaco Huijpen.Bass
"Blessed be the day, that I met James McCray!
Honoured, proud and happy, that, years ago in Munich, I found myselve working in a Wagner-production
with the American tenor James Mc.Cray....
From that day on, I got to know James, not only as a great singer and collegue on stage, but also as
a gentleman, friend, and highly positive, no nonsence(!) voice-teacher.
He now share's his enormous amount of expieriance in the world of proffesional opera and singing-technique
with several talented internationall operasingers that come to work at his studio in The Netherlands: Miracle's (and lot's
of hard work!) are being performed there!
For me, working with James has shaped my career and changed my life in the best possible way, and it
still does.......
I'm proud and honoured that I may live the life of an operasinger, it take's a great deal of hard work,
and the understanding that one cannot do without a real experianced teacher and friend(s) to become succesfull in this proffession.
After a performance, years ago, my father thanked James McCray for evething he was doing for me, He
also tought me:
Never forget: being succesfull is nice, but only if you can share it.....! "
Teatro Colon Buenos Aires, Staatoper Berlin, Komische Oper Berlin, Frankfurt, La Monet Brussels, Gran
Liceu Barcelona, Grand Theatre Geneva, The Dutch Opera.
Hans de Vries, Bass-bariton.
"If ever there was a singing teacher with all the skills necessary to build and train a voice
for the possibility of a world career, it is James McCray.
His great knowledge of voices and musical repertoire, his huge practical experience and most
of all his emphatic talent, make him the best teacher I have ever had, or will have, the privilege of working with.
Within the years we worked I have seen my voice grow into its outer limits of forte ánd piano,
of dark and at the same time clear. Enabling me to sing, besides Lieder and oratorio, the right basbariton-operarepertoire
that my voice was destined for."
Bastiaan Everink. Baritone.
"Only James made it possible for me to make my international debut as Escamillio in the operahouse
in Bonn. He teaches like a singer, with his whole soul. After each lesson my voice feels stronger and healthier than before.
It is like talking to Melocci himself. He is the only one who really knows what squillo is about."
Deutch Opera Berlin, Theters, Bonn, Nüremberg, Pforzheim, Darmstadt. Aachen, etc...
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