Renee Fleming “I love walking, preferably in a beautiful European city, or in a place of natural beauty, but a hotel elliptical machine will do. Pilates is my preferred form of torture, and it has maintained enough core strength for me to continue to sing challenging concerts and opera, not to mention grappling 150 pounds of luggage on tour when I have to.” a testimony to portion control and lots of Pilates, recommending it three times a week. [Parade]
Fleming: I’m a Pilates nut. I found that its really changed my body. After two children you think you will never in your life have a flat stomach again, and I’m here to tell you that Pilates can do it. 04/03/2008
Fleming has just submitted to her last throttling at the Metropolitan Opera this season as Desdemona, a role that helped lift her to stardom in the mid-1990s. No other lyric soprano displays such an abundance of sumptuous tone, technical brilliance, charm, looks. Shell open the Mets season in September with an evening devoted to three of her greatest roles, all very different: tragic Violetta, featherbrained Manon and the high-minded Countess in Capriccio. Until then, the diva is busy traveling the world.
Where to? A week in Mexico climbing the Mayan ruins and taking my younger daughter with me. Then I will sing in Mexico City.
Kazakhstan “Theyre having an opera ball, sort of a Viennese opera ball. I just thought this will be very exciting”
Then Alexandria, Egypt April finds her in Munich, May in Canada, June in Vienna (as the Countess in Capriccio at the Vienna State Opera) and in Russia. She will concretize in Astana, Kazakhstan, on July 6.
Opera has become much more image-oriented, more theatrical, Ms. Fleming says. That was a big reason she went on a regimen to lose weight.
Actually, Pilates was something I always wanted to do, but just couldn’t find out how to do it. I also discovered Pilates a couple of years ago. As we get older, we need to stay slender.
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