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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.

Renee Fleming

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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 want to get out of the major opera houses.
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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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Contrary to the norm, as my technique improved my voice became higher.
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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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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 don't like to sing loud.
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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 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 first thing I did when I made a little bit of money as a singer was to buy myself an amber necklace. This is often the way we put together our lives, adding the striking qualities of others into our own character.
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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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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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Every singer eventually gets around to a Christmas disc.
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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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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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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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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 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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I think singing it when its done well is extremely natural. It feels great.
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I enjoy the more floaty, exposed, elegant singing.
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