With his chosen roster of vocal soloists Mr. Levine seemed to be sending another message: when you get me, you also get a whole pool of Met singers loyal to me, singers who don't appear regularly here, since Boston still lacks a major international opera company.
Even so, each company has dipped into the pool of former Amato singers.
Opera of the Hamptons, a nonprofit regional company in its 14th season, draws its talent mostly from New York City's pool of professional opera singers.
After all, deep down, haven't we all been cynically thrown together from a pool of rejected solo singers by a scheming record industry impresario during the audition stages of a televised singing competition?
They can draw on a large pool of underemployed but accomplished singers, many of them young, who continue to pour out of conservatories and university music departments.
Utilising Braxton's position at The Onion to place an ad, the group recruited a pool of around 12 feisty female singers, and even played a concept gig called Press Conference in which these women delivered their backing vocals while sitting at a long, low table.
Young artist programs seem to have become an endless pool of cheap choristers and comprimario singers.
I haven't picked Reeder at random from the deep pool of heartfelt, if off-kilter, singer-songwriters.
Ms. Reeves uses two backup singers from a pool of about six, including two of her sisters, as her Vandellas.
Thousands of singers crossed his path.
