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Becoming Renee Fleming: sure she's the biggest female opera star we have now. But she had a long, slow and often painful start. America's number-one diva recalls her tough early days. Struggling young singers--coraggio!(Interview)
It's hard to imagine Renee Fleming languishing in obscurity, struggling to get a career started, dragging herself from one futile audition to another. It's even harder to think of her showing up--gratefully, in fact--in Richmond, Virginia, for a U.S. opera debut as Frasquita. But that's the way it happened, in the unlikely setting of American regional opera. Being Renee Fleming may be a dream job. Becoming Renee Fleming was apparently something else altogether.
An interview with the diva late last spring gave me the opportunity to explore some of the less familiar aspects of her storied ascent. We met in New York, at the offices of OPERA NEWS, soon before she ...
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