Renée Fleming said efforts to learn more about the Czech branches of her family tree had so far proved fruitless. Unfortunately they did not encourage either my grandmother or my mother to speak the language.
I grew up with the culture, hearing the language…it was learning about how they lived. “Both of my grandparents were born in Prague and emigrated to the US about a hundred years ago.
As she told a packed news conference in Prague on Thursday night, she has Czech roots and is proud of them. But perhaps they didn’t have to try too hard to persuade Renée Fleming to come. Renée Fleming, photo: CTK The south Bohemian town of Český Krumlov is celebrating its 700th anniversary this year and the music festival’s organisers pulled out all the stops to secure an appearance by one of the world’s greatest singers.
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