Renée Fleming

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Born: February 14, 1959
From: Indiana, Pennsylvania, USA
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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.

Works

71 films

Margaret

20116.4

2005 - Renee Fleming & Claire Bloom

2005

Waldbühne 2010 | An Evening with Renée Fleming

2010

Bride of the Wind

20014.2

Renee Fleming: Sacred Songs

2006

Rusalka

200210.0

Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro

19944.0

The Marriage of Figaro

19948.5

Manon

2001

Secret Song

2019

We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial

20094.6

Camelot: Live from Lincoln Center

20082.0

The Metropolitan Opera: The Hours

2022

The Kennedy Center at 50

202110.0

The Diamond Jubilee Concert 2012

20128.2

Voom Portraits

200710.0

The Metropolitan Opera: Rigoletto

20138.5

Sommernachtskonzert 2017

20178.0

Bosch: The Garden of Dreams

20167.1

Bruckner - Symphony No. 7 & Wolf - Lieder

2012

Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin

2007

Metropolitan Opera At Home Gala

20209.0

Myths and Hymns

2021

Klassik am Odeonsplatz 2019

2019

The Met — Der Rosenkavalier

2010

Christmas in Washington

20037.7

The Metropolitan Opera: Otello

2012

Don Giovanni

20008.5

Poulenc: Dialogues des Carmélites

2019

Ladies & Gentlemen, Miss Renée Fleming

2002

Faszinierende Frauen - Faszinierende Stimmen

2009

The Metropolitan Opera: Rusalka

2014

Gala Concert: 300 Years of St. Petersburg

20039.0

The Metropolitan Opera: La Traviata

20227.0

The Ghosts of Versailles

19927.5

The Metropolitan Opera HD Live Gounod's Romeo et Juliette

20078.0

Otello

19954.5

The Metropolitan Opera: Capriccio

20118.0

Le Nozze di Figaro

1998

The Metropolitan Opera: Il Trovatore

20118.0

Manon Lescaut – The Met

2008

Royal Opera House: La Traviata

20097.0

The Metropolitan Opera: Hansel and Gretel

2008

Metropolitan Opera Gala James Levine's 25th Anniversary

1996

In Search of Mozart

20066.9

Strauss R: Der Rosenkavalier

20099.5

The Metropolitan Opera: Hamlet

2010

The Metropolitan Opera: The Merry Widow

20156.3

Massenet: Thaïs

2008

The Dangerous Liaisons - San Francisco Opera

1994

Richard Strauss - Ariadne Auf Naxos

2012

André Previn - A Bridge between two Worlds

2009

Händel: Rodelinda

2011

La Traviata

20068.0

Der Rosenkavalier

20177.0

Rossini: Armida

2010

The Metropolitan Opera: Così Fan Tutte

2014

The Metropolitan Opera: Don Giovanni

2011

Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square featuring Renee Fleming and Claire Bloom

2006

Renée Fleming's Cities That Sing - Paris

2022

Arabella

2014

Lucrezia Borgia

20119.0

John Adams: Nixon in China

20234.0

Opening Night Gala Starring Renée Fleming

2008

A Streetcar Named Desire - The San Francisco Opera World Premiere

1998

Capriccio

2013

Arabella

2007

The Metropolitan Opera: Lucia di Lammermoor

2011

A Recital with Renée Fleming: Vienna at the Turn of the 20th Century

2014

Mythos Mozart - Musik für die Welt

2006

Built Beautiful: An Architecture and Neuroscience Love Story

20206.0