Emily Ellet

The other day, I met a woman with the most beautifully curated Instagram feed I’d ever seen. She loves the color yellow, and she’s a branding/graphic designer who is obviously very good at her job. The mix of her images really hit me.  The full profile is a very satisfying collage of words, textures, and environments, all in a clean yellow/gray/cream palette. Admittedly, I don’t “get around” much on Instagram.  It’s pretty much Persian cats, ChowChow dogs, and panda bears dis

(That sound you just heard was my voice teachers of yore choking on their collective arpeggios.) The news was a shock to me, too.  I’ve spent the last almost ten years training to be a lyrical ingenue soprano, equally comfortable in both the classical and contemporary genres.  I have spent countless hours preparing to pitch myself to the theatre world as a Galinda in Wicked, a Laurie in Oklahoma, and even a Maria in West Side Story, (if I could ever tan enough to pass for His