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Renee Fleming [1957-0] American

Rank: 102
Musician, Singer

Renée Fleming is an American opera singer and soprano whose repertoire encompasses Richard Strauss, Mozart, Handel, bel canto, lieder, French opera and chansons, jazz and indie rock. Fleming has a full lyric soprano voice.

Travel, Christmas, Courage, Learning, Peace, Romantic, Teacher

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At this stage in my career, I don't have to take any big risks. You want to take a calculated risk, not one that leads to people saying 'yes, but there was that one time when she made that big mistake.' It's always a shame when that happens, especially if you've gotten by for decades without anything hugely tragic.		101
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.	Peace	102
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.		103
My worry is that opera will become an historic art form as opposed to a living, breathing thing.		104
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.		105
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.	Learning	106
For years, I had no time for exploratory travel.	Travel	107
I've always been inspired by artists who have shown musical and intellectual curiosity and the courage to take risks.	Courage	108
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.		109
For my own singing, I used to be attracted by the baroque, the flashier the better, but now I prefer a simpler, purer style.		110
No voice teacher can be all things to all people. You have to gain information from whatever sources you can. You have to listen.	Teacher	111
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.		112
Opera is really fun.		113
Having to travel so much plays havoc with your personal life.	Travel	114
Well, any time I'm preparing for a performance or even a rehearsal, it's 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.		115
I don't want to be somebody who stands still and sings pretty. Each song is a world. Each song is a story. I don't achieve nearly what I want.		116
I listen to archival and historic recordings. I love watching singers. I learned a lot from watching videos.		117
I don't like to sing loud.		118
I think opera has gained a kind of glamorous appeal. It's a live performance that aligns all of the arts, and when it is represented in the media, in film in particular, it is presented as something that is really a special event, whether it's a great date or something that's just hugely romantic.	Romantic	119
I am so envious of my colleagues from 100 years ago who only sang new works, they hardly ever sang revivals.		120
Every singer eventually gets around to a Christmas disc.	Christmas	121
There's no performance where I never have to think about setting up a phrase or making a technical adjustment while I'm performing.		122
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.		123
I don't want to record anything unless it can be great and genuinely interesting.		124
Very few opera singers in history have been able to cross into popular music.		125
I think singing is one of the most natural things that human beings do, but it's difficult.		126
My parents discussed singing every night over the dinner table; I had a tremendous music education.		201
I want to keep my voice young, with nothing heavy.		202
For a while it was hard for me to say no to work.		203
I enjoy the more floaty, exposed, elegant singing.		204
I'm not a reactionary.		205
I would love to do more private concerts.		206
I have a certain image that's more classic, and I'm happy to stay out of the fray.		207
I do everything in the third person. Performance is about being someone else.		208
I'm reserved, so I've always needed to find a way of opening up. Jazz helped me do that.		209
With classical singing you have to put out so much air - you project, you emit force.		210
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.		211
When a human being without amplification makes a sound that is high and loud, it is almost unworldly.		212
It is always fragile, being a parent.		213
Contrary to the norm, as my technique improved my voice became higher.		214
I think touring is hard.		215
Because everything about the voice interests me, I felt it would be fascinating to learn a completely different style of singing.		216
My parents were both high-school music teachers.		217
I'm not exactly an angry young person.		218
I'm rarely singing in English.		219
Being steeped in the process of learning and exploring keeps me from becoming too nervous. Partly it's about not getting bored.		220
I want to get out of the major opera houses.		221
I was always a very good student.		222
Some of my first teachers were incredibly tough. You could never sing more than three words without being stopped and having to do it over 20 times. I loved that - that sort of process of dissecting and trying to figure out and master this incredibly mysterious instrument.		223
Certainly, jazz has become more of a niche, which is surprising, because it's our music. It's the national music of America.		224
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.		225
I'm lucky - I can do two things at once.		226
Learning operatic roles is ongoing, and I find that I can learn on the train or subway, during a manicure, getting my hair done, and even while driving if I only look at the score at red lights.		301
I think singing it when it's done well is extremely natural. It feels great.		302
I have not changed with the accomplishments. I've remained the same. If I had changed, great. You know, but I haven't.		303

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