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.
Renee FlemingMy worry is that opera will become an historic art form as opposed to a living, breathing thing.
Renee FlemingNo voice teacher can be all things to all people. You have to gain information from whatever sources you can. You have to listen.
Renee FlemingOne 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 FlemingI've lived in New York all my life, and we went to the Mormon Pageant each year in upstate New York. It still is a wonderful production. I remember going and seeing the performance and listening to the music. My father had Mormon Tabernacle Choir music, and we would listen to it and sing with it.
Renee Fleming