• 43. Steal Two of These To Create an Original Piece as an Opera Singer
    Jan 29 2025

    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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    18 min
  • 42. Ready to Make Original Music? Process Your Week by Creating a Quick Song Mashup
    Jan 22 2025

    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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    21 min
  • 41. Four Objections Opera Singers Have to Creating New Music
    Jan 15 2025

    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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    17 min
  • 40. Three Reasons to Create an Original Piece as a Christian Opera Singer
    Jan 8 2025

    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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    14 min
  • 39. Can the Performing Arts Look Like God? New Vision for a New Year
    Jan 1 2025

    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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    22 min
  • 38. “Be Not Afraid!” God Empowers the Creative Idea He Puts Inside of You
    Dec 24 2024

    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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    26 min
  • 37. Move from Loneliness into Fruitfulness for Christian Opera Singers
    Dec 18 2024

    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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    23 min
  • 36. Singers Are Creators: Reimagine What You Can Do as a Classically-Trained Singer
    Dec 10 2024

    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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    11 min