Renée Fleming
Date of birth: 1959-02-14
Place of birth: Indiana, Pennsylvania, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Renee Fleming
Biography
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 18 Grammy Awards and has won five times. In June 2023, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announced that Fleming would be one of the five artists recognized at the 2023 Kennedy Center Honors, which she received in December 2023. Other notable honors won by Fleming have included the Crystal Award from the World Economic Forum in Davos, 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. In May, 2023, Fleming was appointed by the World Health Organization as a Goodwill Ambassador for Arts and Health. On April 9, 2024, Penguin Random House published Fleming's anthology Music and Mind: Harnessing the Arts for Health and Wellness, a collection of essays about the health benefits of music and the arts, by scientists from leading research institutions, practitioners, educators, arts leaders, musicians, artists and writers. 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. ... Source: Article "Renée Fleming" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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The Kennedy Center at 50
2021-10-01
Echoing "An American Pageant for the Arts," the 1962 event conducted by Leonard Bernstein, this spec
Klassik am Odeonsplatz 2019
2019-07-13
Built Beautiful: An Architecture and Neuroscience Love Story
2020-10-22
For centuries, humans have sought to express beauty in architecture and art, but it is only recently
Mythos Mozart - Musik für die Welt
2006-01-01
Documentary about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Faszinierende Frauen - Faszinierende Stimmen
2009-10-23
Documentary about female opera stars.
Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square featuring Renee Fleming and Claire Bloom
2006-10-12
Internationally acclaimed American soprano Renee Fleming and British actress Claire Bloom join with
Le nozze di Figaro
1994-01-01
The Marriage of Figaro is a continuation of the plot of The Barber of Seville several years later, a
Ladies & Gentlemen, Miss Renée Fleming
2002-02-03
Explores the life and career of American soprano Renée Fleming. Share an intimate visit with Renée b
André Previn - A Bridge between two Worlds
2009-03-29
Sir André Previn, born in Berlin in 1929, figures among the most prominent musicians of the 20th and
John Adams: Nixon in China
2023-04-16
In February 1972, the American president Richard Nixon went to China to meet Mao Zedong. In the cont
Otello
1995-10-01
Verdi’s monumental score is fully the equal of Shakespeare’s famous tragedy—and both demand great ac
Strauss R: Der Rosenkavalier
2009-01-31
Herbert Wernicke's production of Richard Strauss's "Der Rosenkavalier", filmed live at the Festspiel
Royal Opera House: La Traviata
2009-07-05
Renée Fleming has matured into one of the finest sopranos around at the moment, a true star with a s
The Metropolitan Opera: La Traviata
2022-10-05
Soprano Nadine Sierra stars as the self-sacrificing courtesan Violetta—one of opera’s ultimate heroi
Massenet: Thaïs
2008-12-20
When the most voluptuous, sought-after courtesan in the world meets an ascetic monk whose life is de
The Metropolitan Opera: The Hours
2022-12-10
Renée Fleming makes her highly anticipated return to the Met in the world-premiere production of Pul
In Search of Mozart
2006-01-04
Made to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth, IN SEARCH OF MOZART is the first feature-
La Traviata
2006-01-01
This superb 2006 production of the Los Angeles Opera's La Traviata stars Renée Fleming, who joins th
Händel: Rodelinda
2011-12-03
Renée Fleming stars in the title role of one of Handel’s greatest dramas, seen in Stephen Wadsworth’
The Metropolitan Opera: Il Trovatore
2011-04-30
Verdi’s IL TROVATORE again storms the Met stage in a star-studded, anvil-wielding cast , including S
Renée Fleming's Cities That Sing - Paris
2022-09-18
Step onto the stage of the Théâtre du Châtelet alongside superstar soprano Renée Fleming in Renée Fl
2005 - Renee Fleming & Claire Bloom
2005-12-02
Internationally acclaimed American soprano Renee Fleming and British actress Claire Bloom join with
The Dangerous Liaisons - San Francisco Opera
1994-09-21
Conrad Susa's three-act opera with libretto by Philip Littell, is based on the scandalous 18th centu
Manon
2001-01-01
Live 2001 recording at the Bastille opera in Paris in a production for l'Opéra de Paris by Gilbert D
The Metropolitan Opera: Capriccio
2011-04-23
Renée Fleming is Countess Madeleine, the beautiful, enigmatic woman at the center of Strauss’s sophi
Don Giovanni
2000-12-01
Live performance at the Metropolitan Opera in 2000.
Bride of the Wind
2001-06-08
A biopic of Alma Mahler, the wife of composer Gustav Mahler (as well as Walter Gropius and Franz Wer
Rusalka
2002-12-21
Renee Fleming stars in Dvorak's three-act opera based on two fairy-tales which tells the story of a
The Marriage of Figaro
1994-05-28
Live from Glyndebourne 1994. The first production to be filmed Live in Glyndebourne´s new opera hou
The Metropolitan Opera: Otello
2012-10-27
In Verdi’s retelling of Shakespeare’s towering tragedy, Renée Fleming gives a captivating performanc
Ariadne Auf Naxos
2012-02-25
Christian Thielemann conducts this Staatskapelle Dresden production of Richard Strauss' chamber oper
Metropolitan Opera Gala James Levine's 25th Anniversary
1996-04-27
This tribute to James Levine, first shown on PBS, was only part of that glorious evening. Here we ha
Richard Strauss - Ariadne Auf Naxos
2012-08-21
Flemings voice might have been made for Ariadne and she achieved a great personal triumph in this pr
Rossini: Armida
2010-05-01
It is a rare opera indeed that calls for one soprano diva and no fewer than six tenors. Mary Zimmerm
The Metropolitan Opera: Rusalka
2014-02-08
Renée Fleming sings one of her signature roles, the title character in Dvořák’s sumptuously melodic
The Metropolitan Opera: The Merry Widow
2015-01-17
Renée Fleming lights up the Met stage as Hanna Glawari, the fabulously wealthy widow of the title in
Bosch: The Garden of Dreams
2016-06-09
2016 marks the 500th anniversary of the death of Hieronymus Bosch. It is almost the only information
Der Rosenkavalier
2017-05-13
In his new production, Robert Carsen places the action at the end of the Habsburg Empire, underscori
Lucrezia Borgia
2011-05-13
A notorious femme fatale renowned for her ruthless pursuit of power reveals poignant vulnerability w
Arabella
2007-03-21
Arabella, Op. 79, is a lyric comedy or opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to a German libretto b
Bruckner - Symphony No. 7 & Wolf - Lieder
2012-09-01
BRUCKNER, A.: Symphony No. 7 / WOLF, H.: Lieder (Fleming, Thielemann) Recorded live at Semperoper Dr
The Ghosts of Versailles
1992-01-10
What happened to Figaro and his friends after the events told in Rossini’s and Mozart’s operas? One
Le Nozze di Figaro
1998-11-11
The Met assembled a vocal dream team for Jonathan Miller’s stylish production of the eternal Mozart
The Met — Der Rosenkavalier
2010-01-09
This production of Strauss’s most sumptuous work by director Nathaniel Merrill and designer Robert O
Christmas in Washington
2003-12-14
The 2003 edition of Christmas in Washington hosted by Patricia Heaton.
Capriccio
2013-06-12
Richard Strauss' last stage work is an opera about opera as an art form, depicting the creation of a
Waldbühne 2010 | An Evening with Renée Fleming
2010-06-27
Repertoire Modest Mussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain; Antonín Dvořák: Song to the Moon from “Rusalk
Arabella
2014-06-17
2014 marks a year of celebration recognizing the 150th birthday year of the German late-Romantic orc
Margaret
2011-09-30
17-year-old Lisa feels certain that she inadvertently played a role in causing a traffic accident th
Metropolitan Opera At Home Gala
2020-04-25
In its most ambitious effort yet to bring the joy and artistry of opera to audiences everywhere duri
The Metropolitan Opera: Hamlet
2010-03-27
After over a century out of the Met’s repertoire, audiences were thrilled to discover just what a se
Poulenc: Dialogues des Carmélites
2019-05-11
Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads the classic John Dexter production of Poulenc’s devastating story of fait
The Metropolitan Opera: Rigoletto
2013-02-16
Michael Mayer’s acclaimed production, first seen in the 2012–13 season, sets the action of Verdi’s m
The Metropolitan Opera: Hansel and Gretel
2008-01-01
This deliciously dark take on the beloved Brothers Grimm fairy tale, appealing to audiences of all a
The Metropolitan Opera: Don Giovanni
2011-10-29
Imbuing the familiar Don Juan myth with a captivating combination of comedy, seductiveness, danger,
The Metropolitan Opera: Così Fan Tutte
2014-04-26
Met Music director James Levine conducts a cast of youthful stars in Mozart’s sophisticated comedy a
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live Gounod's Romeo et Juliette
2007-12-15
The world’s most famous love story comes to operatic life with superstars Anna Netrebko and Roberto
Manon Lescaut – The Met
2008-02-16
One of today’s most compelling singing actresses, Karita Mattila takes on the irresistible role of M
The Metropolitan Opera: Lucia di Lammermoor
2011-03-19
The tragic tale of "the bride of Lammermoor" has always been a favorite of opera-goers and sopranos
Gala Concert: 300 Years of St. Petersburg
2003-05-31
Celebrating three hundred years of the founding of St. Petersburg by Peter The Great. Dazzling stagi
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
2007-02-24
The pain of unrequited love is portrayed unforgettably by two of today’s greatest stars. Renée Flemi
A Streetcar Named Desire - The San Francisco Opera World Premiere
1998-12-30
As Blanche’s fragile world crumbles, she turns to her sister Stella for solace – but her downward sp
Myths and Hymns
2021-01-13
A kaleidoscopic collection of musical genres, Myths and Hymns explores the nature of faith and longi
We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial
2009-01-18
A public celebration of the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States
Voom Portraits
2007-10-01
Iconic artist and theater director Robert Wilson has created a series of video portraits of celebrit
Opening Night Gala Starring Renée Fleming
2008-09-22
Keeping with a long-standing tradition, Renee Fleming kicks off the new season at the Met with scene
The Diamond Jubilee Concert 2012
2012-06-03
In the presence of HM the Queen and the royal family, an array of stars from the last sixty years of
Sommernachtskonzert 2017
2017-05-25
A Recital with Renée Fleming: Vienna at the Turn of the 20th Century
2014-09-01
A Recital with Renée Fleming: Vienna at the Turn of the 20th Century
Camelot: Live from Lincoln Center
2008-05-08
King Arthur founds the kingdom of Camelot and the Knights of the Round Table, who fight for justice
The Metropolitan Opera: Hamlet
2010-03-27
Renee Fleming: Sacred Songs
2006-04-11
Recorded at Germany's Mainz Cathedral, this inspirational concert video features the glorious voice