The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer
by Renee Fleming
List Price:
Our Price: $6.45
You Save: $18.50 (74%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $3.42 (click here)
Category: Book
See more book details and other editions
Book Summary Information
Author: Renee FlemingEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Published)
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2004-11-04
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 240
Publisher: Viking Adult
Book Reviews of The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer
Book Review: Articulare and full of insight
Summary: 5 Stars
A book about a world-class opera singer will be read mainly by two categories of people: singers and opera lovers. To strike a balance that will please both of the interested parties is tricky. Too much technical stuff and you alienate the second camp. Not enough technical stuff and you disappoint the first camp. Fleming, by and large, manages to satisfy both sides of the equation. She acknowledges the help of novelist Ann Patchett's "silent work on paper", but it is clear from the passages on vocal technique that much of it is written in her own words, confirming one's impression from her spoken interviews that she is fluent and articulate (she is also fluent in German and French and can get by in Italian). The book is sensibly divided up into chapters that focus on different facets of the singer's life, so that singers will probably dwell on "Apprenticeship", "Mentors", "Longevity" and "Performance", whereas the chapters on "Family", "Success", "Roles", and "Backstage" will appeal more to the non-singing reader. There's also a chapter on the business of recording. As a singer, I found the book fascinating and wished there was more of it (its 222 pages are printed in quite a large typeface). I hope that this intelligent, articulate and unusually analytical woman will, when her stage career is over, find time to write a book on the technique and business of singing aimed purely at the student and professional singer. She would be ideally qualified to do so.
Entertainment Books
Book Subjects
- Arts & Photography
- Audiobooks on Cassette
- Audiobooks on CD
- Biographies & Memoirs
- Business & Investing
- Children's Books
- Comics & Graphic Novels
- Computers & Internet
- Cooking, Food & Wine
- e-Books
- Engineering
- Entertainment
- Gay & Lesbian
- Health, Mind & Body
- History
- Home & Garden
- Horror
- Law
- Literature & Fiction
- Medicine
- Mystery & Thrillers
- Nonfiction
- Outdoors & Nature
- Parenting & Families
- Professional & Technical
- Reference
- Religion & Spirituality
- Romance
- Science
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Sports
- Teens
- Travel
Most talked about in Entertainment Books
The Glass Castle: A Memoirby Jeannette Walls
Scribner; Published: 2006-01-09; Paperback; Book
Best price: $4.25
Price in other shops:
Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelseaby Chelsea Handler
Simon Spotlight Entertainment; Published: 2008-04-22; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $13.00
Price in other shops:
My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Standsby Chelsea Handler
Bloomsbury USA; Published: 2005-06-06; Paperback; Book
Best price: $9.04
Price in other shops:
Mommywoodby Tori Spelling
Simon Spotlight Entertainment; Published: 2009-04-14; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $12.99
Price in other shops:
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Mealsby Michael Pollan
Penguin; Published: 2007-08-28; Paperback; Book
Best price: $8.14
Price in other shops:
Losing Mum and Pup: A Memoirby Christopher Buckley
Twelve; Published: 2009-05-06; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $14.32
Price in other shops:
A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanityby Bill O'Reilly
Broadway; Published: 2008-09-23; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $12.90
Price in other shops:
The Last Lectureby Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow
Hyperion; Published: 2008-04-08; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $8.40
Price in other shops:
Taking Woodstockby Elliot Tiber, Tom Monte
Square One Publishers; Published: 2007-06-15; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $14.69
Price in other shops:
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance - Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!by Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith
Quirk Books; Published: 2009-04-04; Paperback; Book
Best price: $7.49
Price in other shops:
Similar books summaries and other product reviews
HOMAGE: The Age of the DivaRelease date: 2006-10-17; Music CD
Best price: $9.95
Price in other shops:
Renee Fleming - The Beautiful Voice ~ Gounod, Lehar, Orff, Puccini, Rachmaninov, StraussRelease date: 1998-02-10; Music CD
Best price: $9.71
Price in other shops:
Renée Fleming - Signatures ~ Great Opera Scenes / Sir Georg SoltiRelease date: 1997-09-09; Music CD
Best price: $7.60
Price in other shops:
![Tchaikovsky - Eugene Onegin / Fleming, Vargas, Hvorostovsky, Gergiev, Carsen [Metropolitan Opera 2007] Image](/images/Tchaikovsky-Eugene-Onegin-Fleming-Vargas-Hvorostovsky-Gergiev-Carsen-Metropolitan-Opera-2007-B000YCLRBA-X.jpg)
Tchaikovsky - Eugene Onegin / Fleming, Vargas, Hvorostovsky, Gergiev, Carsen [Metropolitan Opera 2007]Uni; Release date: 2007-12-18; DVD
Best price: $18.88
Price in other shops:
Renee Fleming: By RequestRelease date: 2003-09-16; Music CD
Best price: $8.86
Price in other shops:
Verdi - La TraviataUni; Release date: 2007-10-30; DVD
Best price: $18.41
Price in other shops:
Four Last SongsRelease date: 2008-09-16; Music CD
Best price: $12.00
Price in other shops:
Sacred SongsRelease date: 2005-09-27; Music CD
Best price: $9.71
Price in other shops:
A Soprano on Her Head: Right-Side-Up Reflections on Life and Other Performancesby Eloise Ristad
Real People Press; Published: 1981-06-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $9.69
Price in other shops:
Great Singers on Great Singing: A Famous Opera Star Interviews 40 Famous Opera Singers on the Technique of Singingby Jerome Hines
Limelight Editions; Published: 2004-07-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $5.18
Price in other shops: