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Fleming, a three-time Grammy Award winner who specializes in opera and lieder, provided constructive criticism to the singers after each of their individual performances in the master class, which was organized by the Office for the Arts...
...Soon the Academy Awards will take place, and these actors will be admired the world over and their gowns and coiffures scrutinized in every entertainment magazine. Do you ever wish that opera had as much mainstream appeal as film or pop music...
...It’s coming along. What I would like to see happen is for opera not to become less popular than it is, for us not to lose ground, to lose audience members. One thing that has helped enormously with that are the HD simulcasts [from the Metropolitan Opera in New York...
...would love to do that; it would be a lot of fun. It’s funny—in opera, the pitches are dictated, the timing is dictated, the composer has written everything down. And I memorize everything through the music. So it would be very interesting to see what would work. Would my speaking voice sound funny? Would I be able to manage the timing? It would be an interesting challenge...
...find that when singing opera you lose yourself in your characters, that their worries become yours, that their amours burn hot in your own heart...