No. 199: The Chiaroscuro of Opera Organically

...just like a trained Voice, the Singer's life is full of light and dark: chiaro and oscuro.  The balance between these two sides of singing, these two sides of life, only comes when we are willing to live and love the TOTALITY of what is means to sing, to be, and to live.  

This is Opera Organically.  

This is Life.  

This is Love.  

No. 198: On Singing Organically

Singing organically is ECSTATIC.  

It's BLISS-FULL, FANTASTIC!

It's FREEING, it's BE-ing

AMAZING, it's...PLAYING...!

ENLIGHTENING, DELIGHT-ENING...

and really only FRIGHTENING...when we think

we are separate 

from the Stuff

we hear calling

US

on this GORGEOUS COURSE 

of BEAUTY,

ALL-LOVING,

ALL-EXPERIENCE-ENCOMPASSING!

This JOURNEY,

this FLIGHT,

is a constant FLOW OF LIGHT!

So join me, Friend, where YOU have always been

with ME, 

in a Land of Possibility:

where singing is BEING,

and BREATHING,

and BELIEVING,

in OTHERS as much

as  

OURSELVES.

For VOICE

encompasses ALL WE ARE

meaning EVERYONE

and EVERYTHING

when we SEE with the eyes

LISTEN with the ears

TASTE with the tongue

TOUCH with the skin, and

EMOTE with the HE/ART

of LOVE!

Yes, Opera Organically is IN LOVE...

with LIFE, with SINGING, 

with LEARNING and GROWING...!

Friends...........................

let's All meet there!!!

YES YES YES!!! 

(-:~Becca

No. 197: To Live Where and How Voice Lives

Dear Friends,

This morning I am more convinced than ever that the Path of a singer is not just about singing.  When we REALLY walk the path: when we find a teacher with the know-how to lead us, through vocal technique, to the Center of Who We Are as singers--when we are willing to experience every challenge and adventure we face on that Path, we eventually look around and find it is the Treasure of LIFE we've been looking for all along.

The experience of being alive has been carved out of my Being by VOICE.  THIS IS THE POWER OF OPERA ORGANICALLY.  THIS is the awakening power of singing.

I believe we are losing music education from schools across the country for the following reason: Song, music, and the making of it has been confused with luxury.  THE EXPERIENCE OF LIVING IS NOT A LUXURY!  IT IS A NECESSITY.

Opera Organically is about shouting out this awareness, this reality.  It's about sending out a primal call to the universe that True Voice, this Entity which connects us all, cannot be silenced.  It's about riding the wave of a passion that flows through us with or without a functioning education system.  It's about the seed of expression lying dormant in EACH AND EVERY ONE OF US.  It's about singing...and SO much more!!

Good, Go(o)d Morning y'all!

Love,

Becca

No. 196: The Stuff of Song

We walk through life so often afraid that we cannot sing,

When all along, 

We are made of the stuff of Song!

Opera Organically is this Path of Discovery.

Much Love this Morning to All,

Rebecca Fromherz

No. 195: Is your mirror painted black?

"Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations."  

~Alan Watts

Friend, have you been told you have a "bad" voice?  Have you adopted this belief to such a degree that you insist upon it?  If this is true for you--even just a little, I propose that you are sitting on a barrel which holds a light that needs to be seen by the world.

You might see It force Its way out in strange places in your life: It is in wild laughter; It's in deep sobs; It is in uncontrollable rage--It can even be in a snore.  Your voice is all around you, and seeing It as "bad" is like looking at yourself in a mirror painted black.

What if the world uncovered Its collective Light of Voice?  What power has been silenced in us as individuals which could heal in ways only It understands?

Dear Ones, this uncovering, this allowing, this BEing, IS Opera Organically.  I am so honored to speak to It!

A Beautiful Morning to All,

(-:~Becca

No. 195: Student as Teacher Series Part 2. "Singing" in multiple media

One of the greatest honors I have at this time in my life living Opera Organically is to teach a wonderful artist named Donna Henderson.  My teachers have told me tales of singers who are "empty vessels": just ready to be filled with the tools needed to allow their singing Voices the freedom they want to have.  

Donna is living proof that the stuff of singing does not have to be sung: it can be written.  And when it is written in such a way, the bridge to singing is only as wide as the path to muscular strength and technical knowledge.  

Donna has gifted us this piece, and I know it will "sing" to you, as it did so beautifully to me:

There Is a Loneliness


Listen some dusk to the varied thrush
keening its single long, cool note.

This is what the thrush has waited for all day:
the busy light leaving,
shadows slipping home from their exile.
For the spacious

silence that hears it, answers--
a slender bliss you might have thought
despair.

Listen then to your own,
that other
loneliness that is our vast capacity.

You thought it longed for filling.
It longs to sing.

For more of Donna's work, check out her book or contact Opera Organically for more information!

No.194: What is Opera Organically? It Is All-inclusive

When we consider singing

not as an act which we "can" or "cannot" do

but rather as some Thing, (Voice), which we ARE,

an immense wave of power sweeps us up

and out of any ideas of vocal limitation which may stifle the beauty and truth

of Life-resonating "US".

When Love is present,

where respect and honor are placed paramount,

no One need say they have no Voice...

for as a community, as a culture,

as a family which embraces All Who Are willing to feel the possibility of the seemingly impossible,

songs are not only always present...they carry our thoughts,

our needs, our desires, all our emotions,

our pasts, our presents, and futures,

in a womb of such forgiveness,

of such wild Love and Light and Freedom,

that We would never, EVER dream

of keep such a Thing again silent.

THIS is Opera Organically.