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Since Opera has literally been Mom’s everything since childhood, I asked her if she knew how she heard Opera for the first time: radio broadcast, 78-RPM record played at home, live performance? After much thinking, she’s pretty sure it was in 1949 (when she was 10) while watching a film with her mother in Long…
Watching world-class opera singer Renée Fleming give a singing Master Class at Juilliard is equally helpful to my Toastmasters public speaking training. Wow, Renée gets into such detail to match the voice with the emotion of the words, as well as the intricate breathing and sonic vibration techniques. Amazing! Hyesang Park (soprano) and Bretton Brown (piano)…
Renée Fleming kicks off this interview at the Chicago Humanities Festival with an answer about following childhood dreams: “It didn’t have to be in music. It didn’t have to be in singing. It could have been in business or any number of other fields. I just knew that I really wanted to excel in some…