The Heart of a Singer - Opera Singer, Christian Musician, Make Music, Spiritual Growth, Prophetic Song

44. Every Opera Singer Should Learn to Improvise

Why would I ever want to improvise as a Classical Singer? Does that sound scary and like a crazy thing to learn to do? I see three amazing reasons that Improvisation is Important for Opera Singers:
 
1. Improvising helps us better understand composed material
2. Improvisation helps us listen and connect with other musicians
3. Improvisation is a Heart Rate Monitor for Classical Singers
 
Our God is a creator - out of the abundance of who he is, he created the world and every living thing! We are made in His image, and it is also in our nature to create! “Out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.” (Luke 6:45) I can’t wait for you to experience the flow of music coming from your heart!
 
Blessings,
 
Sarah 🌟
 
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43. Steal Two of These To Create an Original Piece as an Opera Singer

Have you ever wanted to create an original piece? Here are the only 3 Elements you need to create your very own classical piece of music! And the twist? You can steal atleast 2 of them!!! I’ll show you how.
 
Here are the Three Elements:
1. Text/Story
2. Music
3. Audience
 
Blessings,
 
Sarah 🌟
 
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42. Ready to Make Original Music? Process Your Week by Creating a Quick Song Mashup

Are you ready to get started creating original material to perform? Creating a Song Mashup is a great place to start! This is perfect for Opera Singers who don’t have experience composing or arranging, and you don’t even need piano skills! In this episode, I give you the step-by-step process to creating a Song Mashup in less than an hour. Seriously - you can be done in less than 60 minutes. This is a great way to process what you’ve been thinking or feeling, or alternatively, you could use it to get inside the head of a character! I can’t wait for you to get started. Let's go!
 
Blessings,
 
Sarah 🌟
 
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41. Four Objections Opera Singers Have to Creating New Music

Do you feel like you want to create an original piece of music, but find that something keeps holding you back? In this podcast episode, we briefly look at four objections that I've seen trained opera singers have to creating their own new music. And we'll look at a "remedy" for each of these! Hint: You have PERMISSION to break all of the rules!! Get ready to be inspired to start making stuff. Let's go!
 
Blessings,
 
Sarah 🌟
 
 
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40. Three Reasons to Create an Original Piece as a Christian Opera Singer

Do you feel like God is placing something on your heart to share musically? Do you have a creative idea as an opera singer, but you’re not quite sure where to start? Why not creative an original piece! Here is 3 reasons why I think ALL Christian Opera Singers should create original pieces:
 
1. It's Therapeutic
2. It's Vocally Freeing
3. It Can be Glorifying to God
 
Blessings,
 
Sarah 🌟
 
 
Referenced:
36. Singers Are Creators: Reimagine What You Can Do as a Classically-Trained Singer
 
 
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39. Can the Performing Arts Look Like God? New Vision for a New Year

What could the Performing Arts look like when partnered with God? What if people could get healed while seeing an opera? What if God’s presence was tangibly felt in theaters? What if new works were written, inspired by Holy Spirit? Could God be calling you to listen in to what is on His heart for the Arts? As we enter a new year, lets unpack together what might be possible. My prayer is that faith rises up within you to partner with God in a new way in your artistry. Let’s dig in!
 
- Sarah 🌟
 
 
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38. “Be Not Afraid!” God Empowers the Creative Idea He Puts Inside of You

You’re in for a treat today, because I felt an urging to revisit today one of my favorite episodes from this year. Do you have something burning inside of you that you feel like the Lord has given you to do? Does it feel completely terrifying, yet also like something you can’t ignore?
You’re in good company with Mary, who carried in her God’s promise: the birthing Jesus, The Light of the World! The Angel said to Mary: “Do Not Be Afraid!”
So I ask you: What would you do if you had no fear?
The Thing that God has put inside of you to do or to start or to create or to sing or to write - it feels like jumping off of a cliff. It feels terrifying and also a little bit exciting. 
This episode was originally released earlier this year, but the message couldn’t be more timely:
Are you afraid of doing the thing burning in your heart from the Lord? The good news is that you carry the Light of the World inside of you. This Christmas season, every time you see a string of lights, or the stars out in the sky tonight, or hold a candle during a Christmas Eve service, remember WHO lives inside of you! Remember who’s power is living in you to see his Word fulfillled!
I urge you this Christmas season to STEP OUT and allow God to enable you to do thing he has called you to do! 
Let’s go!!! 
 
Sarah 🌟
 
 
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37. Move from Loneliness into Fruitfulness for Christian Opera Singers

Do you struggle sometimes with a sense of loneliness or not quite fitting in? Perhaps you're a Christian in a secular art form and you feel like you might be a bit of the odd one out at times or you might be living in a different country and culture.
Maybe you have longings from God about something that he wants to birth in you and through you. And you might find that those around you don't really understand that. And you might just be feeling this deep sense of longing in your heart for something that you can't quite put your finger on.
I’ve got good news for you today! In this episode, I unpack how God is in the business of taking the lonely, the outcast, the abandoned, the rejected and turning it around. He is bringing new life into you, giving you identity and purpose, putting you in community and causing you to flourish. Let’s unpack all of this today! We will take a deep dive into Psalm 68:6.
 
"God sets the solitary in families;He brings out those who are bound into prosperity.”
Psalm 68:6, NKJV
 
Blessings,
Sarah 🌟
 
 
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36. Singers Are Creators: Reimagine What You Can Do as a Classically-Trained Singer

I want to highlight something that I believe is naturally in us from birth that we may have forgotten as musicians. And that is:
SINGERS ARE CREATORS
We are born with ideas, curiosity, and the ability to think of a melody and speak it forth - to sing it forth.
I believe we were created, yes, for singing beautiful music composed by others, but even beyond that, I believe we can use our classically trained voices for expression and new sound creation. I believe we have melodies, words, and concepts we are meant to share, sing and declare over people and into the world. 
Are you intrigued? I invite you to prepare your heart to listen in for the MORE that God has for you today. Let’s go!
 
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35. It’s Time to Activate Your Creative God Dream Within the Performing Arts

In today's episode, I want to share with you more about the vision that I feel like the Lord has given me over many years for the performing arts when partnered with Him. Especially for opera and for singing. 
Vision for opera companies and singers when surrendered and led by Holy Spirit
Vision for a coming Renaissance on the earth - a renewal of the arts, and innovation, and creativity.
And much more!
I believe that God wants to ignite something in the hearts of His singers! He is calling YOU to be a part of what he wants to do on earth as it is in Heaven! 
Does this sound like something you’re longing for too?
Let’s keep talking.
 
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