At New York Vocal Arts Academy, we believe that:

• it is essential and urgent to keep the magnificent opera genre alive not just by producing opera, but by training and nurturing new generations of exceptional singers;

• the best way to support emerging singers is by removing the financial obstacles which prevent them from realizing their full potential;

• the highly skilled craftsmanship required to sing opera cannot be mass-produced;

• educational institutions ought to use their resources to directly serve the students rather than to feed a gargantuan, self-serving academic bureaucracy;

• a proper, modern education in opera must be pragmatic and multifaceted, and include often-overlooked aspects such as foreign-language immersion, negotiation and financial skills, in addition to providing early career management;

• it is crucial to directly involve the leaders and decision makers of our profession, i.e. casting directors, agents, conductors, and world-class, active singers;

• consequently, that the limited available resources should be allocated to a small number of truly promising, outstanding candidates at the cusp of significant careers, rather than diluted amongst a myriad of students who lack the extremely rare combination of musical, artistic, physical and personality traits required to succeed in this cut-throat industry; and finally,
  

• it is essential to return to the golden standards of yore for selecting and training new artists based on merit, discipline, hard work, dedication, grit, etc. as outlined in Dr. Pons’ and his best known pupil, Christopher Macchio’s, plan for restoring American culture.