Puccini: Tosca: 'Vissi d'arte'

“The clamorous reception given by the MET audience echoed my approbation; she is a finished glorious artist with a big divinely beautiful voice and a superior understanding of style, timing, and emotion… A tall, extremely pretty women, Diener also has a quality I find quite rare on today's opera stages: dignity. She radiated effortless and dignified self-possession that rendered important and touching actions that too often can seem to be only meaningless capers. I long to hear her again in anything she cares to sing.” Classical Singer magazine

My heart belongs to the fin de siècle, and my imagination is fired the by the great women who inhabited it.' - Renée Fleming.