The Inner Voice: The Making Of A Singer - Plot & Excerpts
Whenever I think of her, I see a beautiful necklace she wore, which was made out of huge chunks of golden amber. The first thing I did when I made a little bit of money as a singer was to buy myself an amber necklace. This is often the way we put together our lives, adding the striking qualities of others into our own character. Whether it was Erica Gastelli’s style or Elisabeth Schwarzkopf ’s ease with languages or Beverly Sills’s ability to draw her public close to her, I made a careful study of the qualities I admired and did my best to emulate them. The other students in the program and I used to impersonate Erica’s thick Italian accent, mimicking the way she criticized our hair or our clothes, beginning with a finger-wagging “Oh, Renée . . . ,” followed by “Why would you wear that aaawful dress?” It was Erica who had called me at my parents’ house right after I’d come home from Aspen to announce, “You have been accepted to the Juilliard program. We would like you to sing Musetta in La Bohème.”
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