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Renee Fleming
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: February 14
Musician
Opera Singer
Indiana
Pennsylvania
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I don't like to sing loud.
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I don't want to record anything unless it can be great and genuinely interesting.
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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 think singing it when its done well is extremely natural. It feels great.
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I was always a very good student.
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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'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 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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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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I enjoy the more floaty, exposed, elegant singing.
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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'm reserved, so I've always needed to find a way of opening up. Jazz helped me do that.
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Contrary to the norm, as my technique improved my voice became higher.
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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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My worry is that opera will become an historic art form as opposed to a living, breathing thing.
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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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My whole career I played these girls sort of 18 to 23.
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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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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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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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