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I have a certain image that's more classic, and I'm happy to stay out of the fray.
Renee Fleming
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Renee Fleming
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: February 14
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Opera Singer
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Pennsylvania
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I was constantly being pushed toward a European ideal of what it means to be a classical or opera singer, let's say in the Renata Tebaldi mode. I reject that.
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I was always a very good student.
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Music enabled me as a fragile young person to give voice to emotions I could barely name, and how it enables me to give my voice the unique and mysterious power to speak to others.
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The reason that some singers go on to become great artists has very little to do with their voices, but rather with the fact that they have used their instruments as tools for detailed communication.
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With classical singing you have to put out so much air - you project, you emit force.
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No voice teacher can be all things to all people. You have to gain information from whatever sources you can. You have to listen.
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I cannot imagine a more satisfying calling than my own: beauty, humanity, and history every day, combined with the cathartic joy of singing.
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Among the important realizations I had in my own days in the practice room was that if any one route to any one phrase didn't work after days of trying, then the exact opposite route should at least be explored, as well as every alternative in between, as counterintuitive as that often seemed.
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I enjoy the more floaty, exposed, elegant singing.
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I don't want to record anything unless it can be great and genuinely interesting.
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In a way, being an opera singer is like being a very romantic sixteen-year-old who falls in love with great passion and conviction every month.
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Someone once said that there are probably seven naturally good singing days in a year-and those are days you won't be booked. What we must learn is how to sing through all the other days.
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It is our responsibility to learn how to speak to an audience that is less informed about music, to give it a reason to want to come and see us instead of going to the movies.
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My whole career I played these girls sort of 18 to 23.
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There's no performance where I never have to think about setting up a phrase or making a technical adjustment while I'm performing.
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I want to get out of the major opera houses.
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We sing with the entire body. The sounds that we make emanate not just from the head, but from the whole heart and soul, and, most important, the gut.
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I listen to archival and historic recordings. I love watching singers. I learned a lot from watching videos.
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I'm reserved, so I've always needed to find a way of opening up. Jazz helped me do that.
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I learned so many roles so quickly as a young singer, I thought it was time to come back to them and make them better - deeper, more nuanced.
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