Music
Barbra Streisand
Meryl Streep
Actress
When I was a kid - when I was 16, 17, I'd come home from high school, and my dad collected all of Barbra Streisand's records. And she was very young then. I think she was - she probably had three records out, and she was 21. And we had them all, and I knew every single song, every breath, every elision, every swell. And I sang along to it.
I Got You Babe — Sonny & Cher
Bernadette Peters
Meryl Streep
Actress
I thought, you know, this is the height of arrogance, to think that I could sing this score, because I'd heard the great Bernadette Peters.
Renée Fleming
Meryl Streep
Actress
When I really started listening, I just fell in love with the person behind the aspiration, the dream—you can hear it in her voice, how she sings,”
Frederica von Stade Sings Chants d'Auvergne
Meryl Streep
Actress
I listened to "Songs of the Auvergne," Frederica von Stade when I was making The River Wild.
Jessye Norman – Strauss, R.: Four Last Songs
Meryl Streep
Actress
I listened to one of the most sublime pieces of music ... the first recording of Jessye Norman's "The Four Last Songs" over and over and over and over again.