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Renée Fleming (born February 14, 1959) 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. She has performed coloratura, lyric, and lighter spinto soprano operatic roles in Italian, German, French, Czech, and Russian, aside from her native English. She also speaks fluent German and French, along with limited Italian. Her signature roles include Countess Almaviva in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, Desdemona in Verdi's Otello, Violetta in Verdi's La traviata, the title role in Dvořák's Rusalka, the title role in Massenet's Manon, the title role in Massenet's Thaïs, the title role in Richard Strauss's Arabella, the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier, and the Countess in Capriccio.

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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.

Thinking, Design, Brain, Benefits, Experience, Room

You finally have to learn to pull all the different kinds of teaching and training and coaching together on you own, so that your voice and body and technique for a sound that is consistent and solid.

Teaching, Voice, Coaching, Technique, Body

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.

Art, Date, Live, Media, Opera, Thinking

My whole career I played these girls sort of 18 to 23.

Career, Careers, Girl, Played, Sort, Whole

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.

Circuit, House, Opera, Performers, Want

When I sing, the sound is a totally different range, color, all of it. It's all about the breath. You take in a breath and you make a sound.

Color, Different, Sing, Sound, Totally

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.

Factors, Self, Unique, Voice

A lot of bad behavior in singers is caused by nerves.

Behavior, Caused, Nerves, Singers

My worry is that opera will become an historic art form as opposed to a living, breathing thing.

Art, Become, Breathing, Historic, Worry

My philosophy is that the people around us are there doing as much work if not more work behind the scenes and they're the last people you would ever be unkind to, so I hope I'm not a diva off stage.

Behind The Scenes, People, Philosophy, Scenes, Stage

There's no performance where I never have to think about setting up a phrase or making a technical adjustment while I'm performing.

Adjustment, Performing, Phrase, Phrases, Technical, Thinking

In a sense, it's less about seeing how high up I can vault than about seeing how deeply I can explore my potential. . . Ambition for me is about the willingness to work, the ability to mine my own soul fearlessly.

Ambition, High, Potential, Soul, Vaults, Willingness

If I have to hold a note for a long time, I imagine it as moving and spinning, for the note has to have life. In a way, a singer actually refreshes a note with every beat that it's held.

Hold, Long, Moving, Singer, Singers, Spinning

I enjoy the more floaty, exposed, elegant singing.

Singing, Enjoy, Exposed, Elegant

Certainly, jazz has become more of a niche, which is surprising, because it's our music. It's the national music of America.

America, Jazz, Music, Niche, Surprising

For my own singing, I used to be attracted by the baroque, the flashier the better, but now I prefer a simpler, purer style.

Baroque, Prefer, Singing, Style, Used

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.

Career, Careers, Mistake, People, Risk, Risks

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.

Falling In Love, Like, Passion, Singer, Years

I've always been inspired by artists who have shown musical and intellectual curiosity and the courage to take risks.

Artist, Risk, Intellectual, Take, Curiosity, Courage

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.

Brought, Careers, Enthusiasm, Niggling, Singers, Years

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