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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'm reserved, so I've always needed to find a way of opening up. Jazz helped me do that.
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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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With classical singing you have to put out so much air - you project, you emit force.
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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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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'm lucky - I can do two things at once.
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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'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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A lot of bad behavior in singers is caused by nerves.
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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 think singing it when its done well is extremely natural. It feels great.
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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 cannot imagine a more satisfying calling than my own: beauty, humanity, and history every day, combined with the cathartic joy of singing.
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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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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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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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I want to get out of the major opera houses.
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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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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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