Renée Fleming
Renée Lynn Fleming (born February 14, 1959) is an American soprano, known for performances in opera, concerts, recordings, theater, film, and at major public occasions. A recipient of the National Medal of Arts, Fleming has been nominated for 17 Grammy Awards and has won four times. Other notable awards have included the Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur from the French government, Germany's Cross of the Order of Merit, Sweden's Polar Music Prize and honorary membership in England's Royal Academy of Music. Unusual among artists whose careers began in opera, Fleming has achieved name recognition beyond the classical music world. Fleming has a full lyric soprano voice. She has performed coloratura, lyric, and lighter spinto soprano operatic roles in Italian, German, French, Czech, and Russian, aside from her native English. A significant portion of her career has been the performance of new music, including world premieres of operas, concert pieces, and songs composed for her by André Previn, Caroline Shaw, Kevin Puts, Anders Hillborg, Nico Muhly, Henri Dutilleux, Brad Mehldau, and Wayne Shorter. In 2008, Fleming became the first woman in the 125-year history of the Metropolitan Opera to solo headline a season opening night gala. Conductor Sir Georg Solti said of Fleming: "In my long life, I have met maybe two sopranos with this quality of singing; the other was Renata Tebaldi." Beyond opera, Fleming has sung and recorded lieder, chansons, jazz, musical theatre, and indie rock, and she has performed with a wide range of artists, including Luciano Pavarotti, Lou Reed, Wynton Marsalis, Paul Simon, Andrea Bocelli, Sting and John Prine. A 2018 Tony Award nominee, Fleming has acted on Broadway and in theatrical productions in London, Los Angeles and Chicago. Fleming has also recorded songs for the soundtracks of several major films, two of which won the Academy Award for Best Picture (The Shape of Water and The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King). Fleming has made numerous television appearances, and she is the only classical singer to have performed the U.S. National Anthem at the Super Bowl. Fleming has also become a frequent public speaker about the impact of music on health and neuroscience, winning a Research!America Award for her advocacy in this field. Fleming was born on February 14, 1959, in Indiana, Pennsylvania, the daughter of two music teachers, and grew up in Churchville, New York. She has great-grandparents who were born in Prague and later emigrated to the US. Fleming attended Churchville-Chili High School. She studied with Patricia Misslin at the Crane School of Music at the State University of New York at Potsdam. While at SUNY Potsdam, she took up singing with a jazz trio in an off-campus bar called Alger's. The jazz saxophonist Illinois Jacquet invited her on tour with his big band, but she chose instead to continue with graduate studies at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, with voice teacher John Maloy. ... Source: Article "Renée Fleming" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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- 2023 · John Adams: Nixon in China as Pat Nixon
- 2022 · The Metropolitan Opera: The Hours as Clarissa Vaughn
- 2022 · The Metropolitan Opera: La Traviata as Host
- 2022 · Renée Fleming's Cities That Sing - Paris as
- 2021 · The Kennedy Center at 50 as Self
- 2021 · Myths and Hymns as Soloist, "Migratory V"
- 2020 · Metropolitan Opera At Home Gala as
- 2020 · Stars in the House as Self
- 2020 · Built Beautiful: An Architecture and Neuroscience Love Story as Self
- 2019 · Klassik am Odeonsplatz 2019 as Sopran
- 2019 · Poulenc: Dialogues des Carmélites as Self - Host
- 2017 · Der Rosenkavalier as The Marschallin
- 2017 · StraussR: Der Rosenkavalier as The Marschallin
- 2016 · Bosch: The Garden of Dreams as
- 2015 · The Metropolitan Opera: The Merry Widow as Hanna Glawari
- 2014 · Arabella as Arabella
- 2014 · The Metropolitan Opera: Così Fan Tutte as Self - Host
- 2014 · The Metropolitan Opera: Rusalka as Rusalka
- 2013 · Capriccio as Die Gräfin
- 2013 · The Metropolitan Opera: Rigoletto as Self - Host
- 2012 · The Metropolitan Opera: Otello as Desdemona
- 2012 · Bruckner - Symphony No. 7 & Wolf - Lieder as
- 2012 · Richard Strauss - Ariadne Auf Naxos as Ariadne
- 2012 · Ariadne Auf Naxos as Ariadne/Prima Donna
- 2012 · Meisterwerke der Klassik as Self
- 2011 · Händel: Rodelinda as Rodelinda, Queen of Milan, wife of Bertarido
- 2011 · The Metropolitan Opera: Don Giovanni as Self - Host
- 2011 · Margaret as Opera Singer
- 2011 · Lucrezia Borgia as Lucrezia Borgia
- 2011 · The Metropolitan Opera: Il Trovatore as Herself - Host
- 2011 · The Metropolitan Opera: Capriccio as The Countess
- 2011 · The Metropolitan Opera: Lucia di Lammermoor as
- 2010 · Waldbühne 2010 | An Evening with Renée Fleming as Soprano
- 2010 · Rossini: Armida as Armida
- 2010 · Masterclass as Self
- 2010 · Thomas: Hamlet as Self - Host
- 2010 · The Met — Der Rosenkavalier as Princess von Werdenberg
- 2009 · Faszinierende Frauen - Faszinierende Stimmen as Self
- 2009 · La Traviata as Violetta
- 2009 · André Previn - A Bridge between two Worlds as Self
- 2009 · Strauss R: Der Rosenkavalier as Feldmarschallin
- 2009 · We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial as Self
- 2008 · Massenet: Thaïs as Thaïs
- 2008 · Opening Night Gala Starring Renée Fleming as Violetta / Manon / Countess
- 2008 · Manon Lescaut – The Met as Self - Host
- 2008 · The Metropolitan Opera: Hansel and Gretel as Self - Host
- 2007 · The Metropolitan Opera HD Live Gounod's Romeo et Juliette as Self - Host
- 2007 · Voom Portraits as Self
- 2007 · Arabella as Arabella
- 2007 · Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin as Tatiana
- 2006 · Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square featuring Renee Fleming and Claire Bloom as Self
- 2006 · In Search of Mozart as Self
- 2006 · La Traviata as Violetta Valéry
- 2006 · Mythos Mozart - Musik für die Welt as Self
- 2005 · 2005 - Renee Fleming & Claire Bloom as Herself
- 2005 · The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson as Self
- 2003 · Christmas in Washington as
- 2003 · Gala Concert: 300 Years of St. Petersburg as Soloist
- 2002 · Rusalka as Rusalka
- 2002 · Ladies & Gentlemen, Miss Renée Fleming as Self
- 2001 · Bride of the Wind as Frances Alda
- 2001 · Manon as Manon Lescaut
- 2000 · Don Giovanni as Donna Anna
- 1998 · A Streetcar Named Desire - The San Francisco Opera World Premiere as Blanche Dubois
- 1998 · Le Nozze di Figaro as Contessa d'Almaviva
- 1997 · The View as Self
- 1996 · Metropolitan Opera Gala James Levine's 25th Anniversary as Herself
- 1995 · The Metropolitan Opera: Otello as Desdemona
- 1995 · Otello as Desdemona
- 1994 · The Dangerous Liaisons - San Francisco Opera as Madame de Tourvel
- 1994 · Le Nozze di Figaro as Countess Almaviva
- 1994 · Le nozze di Figaro as The Countess
- 1992 · The Ghosts of Versailles as Rosina
- 1989 · ZDF-Mittagsmagazin as Self
- 1976 · Live from Lincoln Center as Herself
- 1974 · III nach neun as Self
- 1971 · Great Performances as Mme. de Tourvel
- 1971 · Great Performances as Blanche Dubois
- 1971 · Great Performances as Self