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Every singer eventually gets around to a Christmas disc.

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Renee Fleming
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: February 14
Musician
Opera Singer
Indiana
Pennsylvania
Renee Fleming
Singer
Singers
Christmas
Eventually
Gets
Around
Every
Disc
Discs

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I'm lucky - I can do two things at once.
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Singers can also get away with a lot based on youth, strength and enthusiasm, only to find ten years later that what was once just a niggling problem has brought their careers to an end.
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I haven't really been able to transfer into that extraordinarily other worldly creature, other than I hope on stage.
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My mother was the worst kind of stage mother. She would make me and my younger sister and brother little duckling costumes and put us in kiddie shows.
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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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Music was language in our house. It was air.....I feel certain that if I absorbed any lessons at all in the first months and years of my life, they must have been about the work that went into making a beautiful sound.
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I think singing it when its done well is extremely natural. It feels great.
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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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Everybody's a work in progress. I'm a work in progress. I mean, I've never arrived. I'm still learning all the time.
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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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While it's a fact that a voice begins with natural talent, any talent must be nurtured, cajoled, wrestled with pampered, challenged, and, at every turn, examined.
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I have had a very difficult time with stage fright it undermines your well-being and peace of mind, and it can also threaten your livelihood.
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With classical singing you have to put out so much air - you project, you emit force.
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My worry is that opera will become an historic art form as opposed to a living, breathing thing.
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I have not changed with the accomplishments. I've remained the same. If I had changed, great. You know, but I haven't.
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A lot of bad behavior in singers is caused by nerves.
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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 have a certain image that's more classic, and I'm happy to stay out of the fray.
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I think singing is one of the most natural things that human beings do, but it's difficult.
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An interpretation exists because of what we find between the notes.
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