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My whole career I played these girls sort of 18 to 23.

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Renee Fleming
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: February 14
Musician
Opera Singer
Indiana
Pennsylvania
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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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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 don't want to record anything unless it can be great and genuinely interesting.
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Contrary to the norm, as my technique improved my voice became higher.
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I've spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fiddler. There is something very immediate, very simple and emotional, about that music.
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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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Every singer eventually gets around to a Christmas disc.
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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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My worry is that opera will become an historic art form as opposed to a living, breathing thing.
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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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A lot of bad behavior in singers is caused by nerves.
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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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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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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 enjoy the more floaty, exposed, elegant singing.
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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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I listen to archival and historic recordings. I love watching singers. I learned a lot from watching videos.
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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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An interpretation exists because of what we find between the notes.
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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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