Someone once said that there are probably seven naturally good singing days in a year-and those are days you won't be booked.… — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
Music was language in our house. It was air.....I feel certain that if I absorbed any lessons at all in the first… — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
Singers can also get away with a lot based on youth, strength and enthusiasm, only to find ten years later that what… — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
I've lived in New York all my life, and we went to the Mormon Pageant each year in upstate New York. It… — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
I am so envious of my colleagues from 100 years ago who only sang new works, they hardly ever sang revivals. — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
In a way, being an opera singer is like being a very romantic sixteen-year-old who falls in love with great passion and… — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
My worry is that opera will become an historic art form as opposed to a living, breathing thing. — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
The more you put into it, the more you and the audience will get out of it. — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
Among the important realizations I had in my own days in the practice room was that if any one route to any one phrase… — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
“Today, “crossover” has become the golden word of the age. Crossover is based, in fact, on the model used for the development of pop… — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
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.… — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
“pulled out my Valery Gergiev trump card and said I would have to call him about getting another hotel. There are many ways in… — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
I listen to archival and historic recordings. I love watching singers. I learned a lot from watching videos. — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
Music enabled me as a fragile young person to give voice to emotions I could barely name, and how it enables me to give… — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
Well, any time Im preparing for a performance or even a rehearsal, its as if in a way, like any other athletes, these are… — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
Some of my first teachers were incredibly tough. You could never sing more than three words without being stopped and having to do it… — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
