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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
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Opera Singer
Indiana
Pennsylvania
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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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I don't like to sing loud.
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Contrary to the norm, as my technique improved my voice became higher.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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Every singer eventually gets around to a Christmas disc.
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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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I want to get out of the major opera houses.
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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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The student's job is to stay open-minded, to quell the knee-jerk defensiveness we all possess in the face of suggestions for improvement, and to maintain patience when faced with a process that is often slow, confusing, and frustrating.
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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 was always a very good student.
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With classical singing you have to put out so much air - you project, you emit force.
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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 certain image that's more classic, and I'm happy to stay out of the fray.
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