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We are unique, each human voice, not because we are completely self-generated, but because of who we choose to assemble the countless factors that made us.
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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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 enjoy the more floaty, exposed, elegant singing.
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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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A lot of bad behavior in singers is caused by nerves.
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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 want to get out of the major opera houses.
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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'm reserved, so I've always needed to find a way of opening up. Jazz helped me do that.
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I'm American. I'm eclectic. I'm going to follow my musical passions. And if people don't like it, and it hurts my legacy, I'm not going to worry about that.
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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 listen to archival and historic recordings. I love watching singers. I learned a lot from watching videos.
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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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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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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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My whole career I played these girls sort of 18 to 23.
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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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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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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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Well, any time Im preparing for a performance or even a rehearsal, its as if in a way, like any other athletes, these are muscles that support the vocal cords which are just I believe cartilage. It demands a kind of constant warming up and a constant feeling of where is the voice today.
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