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Opera is really fun.
I'm not a reactionary.
I don't like to sing loud.
I'm rarely singing in English.
I was always a very good student.
It is always fragile, being a parent.
I'm not exactly an angry young person.
I'm lucky - I can do two things at once.
I would love to do more private concerts.
I want to get out of the major opera houses.
For years, I had no time for exploratory travel.
My parents were both high-school music teachers.
For a while it was hard for me to say no to work.
I want to keep my voice young, with nothing heavy.
I enjoy the more floaty, exposed, elegant singing.
A lot of bad behavior in singers is caused by nerves.
My whole career I played these girls sort of 18 to 23.
Every singer eventually gets around to a Christmas disc.
Having to travel so much plays havoc with your personal life.
An interpretation exists because of what we find between the notes.
Contrary to the norm, as my technique improved my voice became higher.
The more you put into it, the more you and the audience will get out of it.
I think singing it when its done well is extremely natural. It feels great.
I think singing it when it's done well is extremely natural. It feels great.
I do everything in the third person. Performance is about being someone else.
Very few opera singers in history have been able to cross into popular music.
I don't want to record anything unless it can be great and genuinely interesting.
I have a certain image that's more classic, and I'm happy to stay out of the fray.
With classical singing you have to put out so much air - you project, you emit force.
I'm reserved, so I've always needed to find a way of opening up. Jazz helped me do that.
I think singing is one of the most natural things that human beings do, but it's difficult.
My worry is that opera will become an historic art form as opposed to a living, breathing thing.
My parents discussed singing every night over the dinner table; I had a tremendous music education.
When a human being without amplification makes a sound that is high and loud, it is almost unworldly.
I listen to archival and historic recordings. I love watching singers. I learned a lot from watching videos.
I am so envious of my colleagues from 100 years ago who only sang new works, they hardly ever sang revivals.
Everybody's a work in progress. I'm a work in progress. I mean, I've never arrived. I'm still learning all the time.
I haven't really been able to transfer into that extraordinarily other worldly creature, other than I hope on stage.
I've always been inspired by artists who have shown musical and intellectual curiosity and the courage to take risks.
I have not changed with the accomplishments. I've remained the same. If I had changed, great. You know, but I haven't.
Everybody's a work in progress. I'm a work in progress. I mean, I've never arrived... I'm still learning all the time.
For my own singing, I used to be attracted by the baroque, the flashier the better, but now I prefer a simpler, purer style.
Certainly, jazz has become more of a niche, which is surprising, because it's our music. It's the national music of America.
Being steeped in the process of learning and exploring keeps me from becoming too nervous. Partly it's about not getting bored.
No voice teacher can be all things to all people. You have to gain information from whatever sources you can. You have to listen.
Because everything about the voice interests me, I felt it would be fascinating to learn a completely different style of singing.
There's no performance where I never have to think about setting up a phrase or making a technical adjustment while I'm performing.
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.
I cannot imagine a more satisfying calling than my own: beauty, humanity, and history every day, combined with the cathartic joy of singing.
I learned so many roles so quickly as a young singer, I thought it was time to come back to them and make them better - deeper, more nuanced.