Joining us to start the new year is founder and CEO of OPERAfit, and mezzo-soprano, Ellen Broen. She shares her insights on health, private career and life transformation and shares her belief that The Empire Strikes Back is the best Star Wars film.

Notes

• Brooke
  • Star Wars movies
    • The Last Jedi
    • The Empire Strikes Back
    • A New Hope
• Peter
  • Rogue One
  • Verdi Requiem
    • Metropolitan Opera
    • James Levine, Conductor
    • Ferruccio Furlanetto, Bass soloist
• Ellen
  • Handel’s Messiah
  • Jim Carrey
    • Man On the Moon, biopic about Kaufman
    • Andy Kaufman
    • Netflix
    • Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond Featuring a very Special, Contractually Obligated Mention of Tony Clifton
• Opera America Repertoire Development Grants
  • American Opera Projects with Opera Parallèle
    • Today It Rains
      • Laura Kaminsky, composer
      • Mark Campbell, librettist
        • As One
        • American Opera Projects at BAM
  • Beth Morrison Projects
    • Magda/Max
      • Garrett Fisher, composer
      • Amy Schrader, librettist
  • Boston Lyric Opera
    • Schoenberg In Hollywood
      • Tod Machover, composer
      • Simon Robson, librettist
  • The Glimmerglass Festival
    • Blue
      • Jeanine Tesori, composer
      • Tazewell Thompson, librettist
    • Metropolitan Opera
      • Tony Kushner
        • A Blizzard On Marblehead Neck
  • Houston Grand Opera
    • The Phoenix
      • Tarik O’Regan, composer
      • John Caird, librettist
  • Long Beach Opera
    • Five
      • Anthony Davis, composer
      • Richard Wesley, librettist
  • The Metropolitan Opera
    • Eurydice, Based on a play by Sarah Ruhl
      • Matthew Aucoin, composer
      • Sarah Ruhl, librettist
  • Minnesota Opera
    • The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
      • Paola Prestini, composer
      • Mark Campbell, librettist
  • Opera Columbus
    • The Flood
      • Korine Fujiwara, composer
      • Stephen Wadsworth, librettist
  • Opera Theatre of Saint Louis
    • Fire Shut Up In My Bones
      • Terence Blanchard, composer
      • Kasi Lemmons, librettist
      • Champion, also by Blanchard
• Ellen Broen – OPERAFit
  • Emotional Eating
  • Acid Reflux
    • Stress
  • Online Workouts
  • A supportive circle of friends
  • The myth of the dangers of losing weight for singers
  • Pilates and the voice
  • OPERAfit Singer Resource Library launching in April 2018
    • Video library of modules on basic fitness systems
  • Dr. Claudia Friedlander, Voice teacher and fitness trainer
    • Complete Vocal Fitness: A Singer’s Guide to Physical Training, Anatomy and Biomechanics
      • Alexander Technique
  • Acid reflux, investigate your unique triggers
  • Myth: As long as you work out you can eat whatever you want
  • Being healthy is a long journey, start slow an build
  • Health goal Plateaus, and breaking through
    • Mix it up, muscle confusion or diet
    • Switching intensity
    • Dance class
    • Keep it new
  • Stress and food
    • Stress over food is worse for you than anything you’re eating
    • Eat locally
    • How you think about eating is important
  • Life is not set up for success
    • It’s not about winning
    • Live life mode vs. achieve mode
    • No award system for “Adulting”
  • Ontological Coach
    • Prioritizing “who your being” over “what you’re doing”
    • What you do is what you’re worth
  • The Opera community and support
    • Most opera singers are supportive, 90%
      • New forum for classical singers
      • New New forum for classical singers
    • 10% sabotage mentality
      • There are rotten eggs
  • The opera singer is the instrument – your emotional state effects your voice
  • You are your own CEO, and Marketer
  • Many singers believe in the “starving artist” mentality
    • Living a life of scarcity
  • Opera Companies use apprentice programs to staff
    • Minor League baseball players get payed as “Apprentices”
  • Karl Polmak, Professor at The Boston Conservatory
  • The Winner Take All Society
    • A book by Philip J. Cook & Robert H. Frank
  • Mental Health
    • Bi-polar prevalence
    • Beethoven and Mental illness
    • Robin Williams, actor
  • Michael Pollan
    • Cooked, a Netflix cooking series
  • Cindy Sadler, mezzo-soprano
• New year resolutions
  • Theme Based, not goal based
  • And it should fit on a mug

Credits: Peter Szep, Brooke Larimer, Chuck Sachs, Chris Fedak (Audio Engineer), Peter Szep (Editor)