Ep. 9 The Power of Musical Connection & Innovation in Opera with Mila Henry
Learn more about how Elena Armijo can support you in seeing and using the power that resides within you: It’s easy to be afraid of change. We want to stay where we are comfortable and where things are predictable and safe. However, that fear could...
Learn more about how Elena Armijo can support you in seeing and using the power that resides within you: https://elenaarmijo.com/
It’s easy to be afraid of change. We want to stay where we are comfortable and where things are predictable and safe. However, that fear could be keeping you from the life of your dreams. Alternatively, it may be a signal that you’re not ready for what is on the other side of that fear. You’ll never know what it’s telling you until you examine it.
In her Weekly Coaching Tip, Elena Armijo encourages us to consider what your fear of change is keeping you from. In her interview, Elena talks with the incomparable Mila Henry. She is a music director, a pianist, a conductor, the artistic director of the American Opera Project, and a fabulous trailblazer. Through her artistic endeavors, she has been able to combine her love for music with her passion for innovation to maximize others’ impact and create a new future for opera. In this conversation, she and Elena discuss her musical journey and how music can be used to expose people to new ideas and experiences.
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Elena Armijo
Mila Henry
Mila Henry is a music director, pianist and conductor, as well as Artistic Director of Brooklyn-based producing company The American Opera Project (AOP). Hailed “a stalwart contributor to the contemporary opera scene” (Opera Ithaca), she provides musical dramaturgy to AOP works in development and serves as Head of Music for their renowned Composers & the Voice training program for composers and librettists.
Outside of AOP, Mila maintains an active and versatile career, leading works spanning rock musicals (These Girls Have Demons, Pittsburgh CLO; Something Blue, Page 73) to folk operas (The World is Round, Ripe Time, Obie-winner), multi-composer collaborations (Magdalene, PROTOTYPE; Words on the Street, Baruch Performing Arts Center; SWELL, HERE) to multi-persona monodramas (Love & Trouble, Fargo-Moorhead Symphony Orchestra), classical traditions (La liberazione di Ruggiero/The Infinite Energy of Ada Lovelace, Opera Ithaca; Hansel and Gretel, Opera on Tap) to crossover rebellions (Barnum’s Bird, Circle in the Square’s Circle Series; The Moon’s Silent Modulation, Lincoln Center’s Atrium 360°). She prefers not to separate styles, but to blur boundaries, with the outlook that “music-theatre” is one overarching art form that welcomes all musical traditions.
A “terrific” pianist (Opera News), Mila traveled to Dutch National Opera and The Apollo for We Shall Not Be Moved (Opera Philadelphia; synthesizer double), LA Opera for Thumbprint (Beth Morrison Projects, PROTOTYPE; harmonium double), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum for Persona (BMP) and the Libra… Read More
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