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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.
Renee Fleming
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Renee Fleming
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: February 14
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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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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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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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An interpretation exists because of what we find between the notes.
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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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I think singing it when its done well is extremely natural. It feels great.
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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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With classical singing you have to put out so much air - you project, you emit force.
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One of my timesaving habits is to save all of my magazines and junk mail for airplane trips. I walk on the plane with a very heavy bundle, but by the time the trip is over, it can all be thrown away.
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Your brain has a music room, and evolution would not have gone to the trouble of designing that if it didn't have some benefits. So, that suggests to me that we and our ancestors have had music as a central part of our experience for eons. And we're just beginning to understand how that might be. I think that's fascinating.
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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 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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Every singer eventually gets around to a Christmas disc.
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I want to get out of the major opera houses.
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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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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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My whole career I played these girls sort of 18 to 23.
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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 enjoy the more floaty, exposed, elegant singing.
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Contrary to the norm, as my technique improved my voice became higher.
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