Renee Fleming

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. ↗

— Renee Fleming

#costumes #kind #little #make #me

My parents discussed singing every night over the dinner table; I had a tremendous music education. ↗

— Renee Fleming

#dinner table #discussed #education #every #every night

My parents were both high-school music teachers. ↗

— Renee Fleming

#high-school #music #parents #teachers #were

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

— Renee Fleming

#art form #become #breathing #breathing thing #form

No voice teacher can be all things to all people. You have to gain information from whatever sources you can. You have to listen. ↗

— Renee Fleming

#gain #information #listen #people #sources

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. ↗

— Renee Fleming

#away #bundle #by the time #habits #heavy

Opera is really fun. ↗

— Renee Fleming

#opera #really

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

— Renee Fleming

#adjustment #i #making #never #performance

Very few opera singers in history have been able to cross into popular music. ↗

— Renee Fleming

#been #cross #few #history #into

When a human being without amplification makes a sound that is high and loud, it is almost unworldly. ↗

— Renee Fleming

#amplification #being #high #human #human being