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

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

20094.6

The Marriage of Figaro

19948.5

The Kennedy Center at 50

202110.0

Manon

2001

Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro

19944.0

The Diamond Jubilee Concert 2012

20128.2

The Metropolitan Opera: Rigoletto

20138.5

Bosch: The Garden of Dreams

20167.1

Rusalka

200210.0

Secret Song

2019

The Metropolitan Opera: The Hours

2022

Voom Portraits

200710.0

Metropolitan Opera At Home Gala

20209.0

Camelot: Live from Lincoln Center

20082.0

Bruckner - Symphony No. 7 & Wolf - Lieder

2012

Myths and Hymns

2021

Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin

2007

Sommernachtskonzert 2017

20178.0

The Metropolitan Opera: Il Trovatore

20118.0

The Metropolitan Opera: The Merry Widow

20156.3

The Metropolitan Opera: Otello

2012

The Metropolitan Opera: La Traviata

20227.0

Klassik am Odeonsplatz 2019

2019

The Ghosts of Versailles

19927.5

Strauss R: Der Rosenkavalier

20099.5

Otello

19954.5

Faszinierende Frauen - Faszinierende Stimmen

2009

Poulenc: Dialogues des Carmélites

2019

Don Giovanni

20008.5

In Search of Mozart

20066.9

The Met — Der Rosenkavalier

2010

The Metropolitan Opera: Lucia di Lammermoor

2011

The Metropolitan Opera HD Live Gounod's Romeo et Juliette

20078.0

La Traviata

20068.0

Händel: Rodelinda

2011

Ladies & Gentlemen, Miss Renée Fleming

2002

Manon Lescaut – The Met

2008

Christmas in Washington

20037.7

Arabella

2014

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

2006

The Metropolitan Opera: Capriccio

20118.0

The Metropolitan Opera: Rusalka

2014

John Adams: Nixon in China

20234.0

The Metropolitan Opera: Hamlet

2010

Lucrezia Borgia

20119.0

Royal Opera House: La Traviata

20097.0

The Metropolitan Opera: Don Giovanni

2011

Der Rosenkavalier

20177.0

The Metropolitan Opera: Hansel and Gretel

2008

Le Nozze di Figaro

1998

Metropolitan Opera Gala James Levine's 25th Anniversary

1996

André Previn - A Bridge between two Worlds

2009

Opening Night Gala Starring Renée Fleming

2008

The Metropolitan Opera: Così Fan Tutte

2014

Gala Concert: 300 Years of St. Petersburg

20039.0

Richard Strauss - Ariadne Auf Naxos

2012

Rossini: Armida

2010

Massenet: Thaïs

2008

The Dangerous Liaisons - San Francisco Opera

1994

Built Beautiful: An Architecture and Neuroscience Love Story

20206.0

Mythos Mozart - Musik für die Welt

2006

Renée Fleming's Cities That Sing - Paris

2022

Capriccio

2013

A Streetcar Named Desire - The San Francisco Opera World Premiere

1998

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

2014

Arabella

2007