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I enjoy the more floaty, exposed, elegant singing.

Renee Fleming

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Renee Fleming
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: February 14
Musician
Opera Singer
Indiana
Pennsylvania
Renee Fleming
Elegant
Exposed
Singing
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With classical singing you have to put out so much air - you project, you emit force.
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When I sing, the sound is a totally different range, color, all of it. It's all about the breath. You take in a breath and you make a sound.
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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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Contrary to the norm, as my technique improved my voice became higher.
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I have a noble history of being rejected by a lot of places, only to discover that the one that finally lets me in is in fact the perfect fit.
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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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At this stage in my career, I don't have to take any big risks. You want to take a calculated risk, not one that leads to people saying 'yes, but there was that one time when she made that big mistake.' It's always a shame when that happens, especially if you've gotten by for decades without anything hugely tragic.
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Perfection often creates such a flawless surface that there's no place for the audience to enter into a piece, while the idiosyncrasies of individual style are like windows into the singer's heart.
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For years, I had no time for exploratory travel.
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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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So much can be gained from watching other singers, seeing what they do and what they don't do, seeing how they look when they breathe, how wide they open their mouths for a high note.
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A lot of performers don't want to leave the circuit, the European opera house circuit, partly because most singers don't sing many concerts, or at least not while they are in their prime.
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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 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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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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A lot of bad behavior in singers is caused by nerves.
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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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I was always a very good student.
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