If you are looking for a practical, step-by-step guide to developing the tone and techniques required of a singer who sings in the classical or romantic style this is just the book for you.How to Get Off the Sofa and Sing Like a Professional (Opera) Singer is by author, broadcaster and singer Robert Little. Robert says:"It's now some time since I decided I wanted to learn how to sing. It took me about ten years to pluck up the courage and find the opportunity to begin to learn to sing - which was just as well since an adult male should be at least eighteen years old before starting to have his voice trained. It's a skill, an art and a technique which, many years later, I'm still trying to perfect.This booklet tells something of my sojourn in singing but it sets out a lot more of the singing technique that I've learnt along the way. That technique, along with some excellent vocal coaching, has been culled from professional opera singers who, in turn, learnt their technique from the rather stern teacher of experience and, in one case, the even sterner (but ultimately hugely rewarding) experience of working with a world-class singing teacher in Rome.I hope that you'll have at least as much fun from this extremely demanding but rewarding performing art as I've had over the years."