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Jackie Evancho is a refreshingly different child star — dubbed a prodigy, she says she is often bullied by kids in her public high school who wrongly assume she is a diva. “I don’t think I would ever become full of myself. That’s how I’ve been my whole life,” she says simply in a telephone interview from her Pittsburgh-area home. She does add that “I try not to think about (my career) too much at all because I’m afraid I’ll get a big head. I feel like being conceited would be slapping fate in the face.”

Kids at school don’t always give Evancho the benefit of that wisdom, making false accusations that she’s snobbish. “I’m actually kind of a shy person,” she says. “When I’m on stage, it’s like I’m a whole different person, like I’m telling someone else’s story.”

Her fascination with musical stories started with the film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “The Phantom of the Opera.” She started singing and posting videos of herself on YouTube. At the age of 10, buoyed by the enthusiasm of her online fans, she submitted a video of her interpretation of “Panis Angelicus” for consideration on the fifth season of the NBC show “America’s Got Talent”. The gutsy move — and her talent and stage presence — earned her second place on the show and launched her recording career.

Her music is generally categorized as classical crossover, but Evancho says she likes “testing my limits” with songs from a broad range of genres. “I don’t like having limits,” she acknowledges, although she says hearing her soprano belt out country or rap tunes isn’t likely to happen anytime soon.

That spirit, guided by her parents and manager, has led to classical albums like “Awakening”, which entered the Billboard chart at number one in 2014 and finished the year at number three, and attracted the support of legendary music producer David Foster and filmmakers such as Robert Redford, who cast her in “The Company You Keep” alongside himself, Nick Nolte, Susan Sarandon and Anna Kendrick.

Evancho also has several collections of holiday classics, blends of show tunes and pop numbers, and albums like “Songs from the Silver Screen”, which includes “The Music of the Night” from “Phantom,” “Can You Feel the Love Tonight” from “The Lion King” and “Pure Imagination” from “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.”

Her repertoire is diverse because her musical interests are diverse. When asked to name her favorite musical act, she lists Queen, the Black Keys and retro pop chanteuse Lana del Rey. As she prepares to release a more pop-sounding collection of songs in 2017, Evancho mentions that her dream is to sing Johann Pachelbel’s Canon in D minor with a large children’s choir.

This 16-year-old phenom — who has sung at Carnegie Hall and set a record as the world’s youngest opera singer — also plays the violin and piano by ear, although she stopped playing in concert because she got too nervous in front of sellout crowds. Evancho is touring — working around schoolwork and her new passion for archery like the heroine in her favorite movie “The Hunger Games” — offering a set of her favorites from each of her albums that ends with a holiday medley. “Christmas is one of my favorite seasons and I do my part to contribute!” she laughs, noting that “Someday at Christmas” is the piece she currently cherishes.