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Renée Fleming

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 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. ...

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John Adams: Nixon in China

2023

as Pat Nixon

The Metropolitan Opera: The Hours

2022

as Clarissa Vaughn

The Metropolitan Opera: La Traviata

2022

as Self - Host

Renée Fleming's Cities That Sing - Paris

2022

as Self

The Kennedy Center at 50

2021

as Self

Myths and Hymns

2021

as Soloist, "Migratory V"

Built Beautiful: An Architecture and Neuroscience Love Story

2020

as Self

Metropolitan Opera At Home Gala

2020

as Self

Stars in the House

2020

as Self

Klassik am Odeonsplatz 2019

2019

as Self - Soprano

Poulenc: Dialogues des Carmélites

2019

as Self - Host

Der Rosenkavalier

2017

as The Marschallin

Bosch: The Garden of Dreams

2016

as Self

The Metropolitan Opera: The Merry Widow

2015

as Hanna Glawari

Arabella

2014

as Arabella

The Metropolitan Opera: Così Fan Tutte

2014

as Self - Host

The Metropolitan Opera: Rusalka

2014

as Rusalka

Capriccio

2013

as Die Gräfin

The Metropolitan Opera: Rigoletto

2013

as Self - Host

The Metropolitan Opera: Otello

2012

as Desdemona

Bruckner - Symphony No. 7 & Wolf - Lieder

2012

as Self

Richard Strauss - Ariadne Auf Naxos

2012

as Ariadne

The Diamond Jubilee Concert 2012

2012

as Self - Performer

Ariadne Auf Naxos

2012

as Ariadne/Prima Donna

Meisterwerke der Klassik

2012

as Self

Händel: Rodelinda

2011

as Rodelinda, Queen of Milan, wife of Bertarido

The Metropolitan Opera: Don Giovanni

2011

as Self - Host

Margaret

2011

as Opera Singer

Lucrezia Borgia

2011

as Lucrezia Borgia

The Metropolitan Opera: Il Trovatore

2011

as Self - Host

The Metropolitan Opera: Capriccio

2011

as The Countess

The Metropolitan Opera: Lucia di Lammermoor

2011

as Self - Host

Waldbühne 2010 | An Evening with Renée Fleming

2010

as Soprano

Rossini: Armida

2010

as Armida

Masterclass

2010

as Self

Thomas: Hamlet

2010

as Self - Host

The Met — Der Rosenkavalier

2010

as Princess von Werdenberg

Faszinierende Frauen - Faszinierende Stimmen

2009

as Self

La Traviata

2009

as Violetta

André Previn - A Bridge between two Worlds

2009

as Self

Strauss R: Der Rosenkavalier

2009

as Feldmarschallin

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

2009

as Self

Massenet: Thaïs

2008

as Thaïs

Opening Night Gala Starring Renée Fleming

2008

as Violetta / Manon / Countess

Manon Lescaut – The Met

2008

as Self - Host

The Metropolitan Opera: Hansel and Gretel

2008

as Self - Host

The Metropolitan Opera HD Live Gounod's Romeo et Juliette

2007

as Self - Host

Voom Portraits

2007

as Self

Arabella

2007

as Arabella

Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin

2007

as Tatiana

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

2006

as Self

In Search of Mozart

2006

as Self

Mythos Mozart - Musik für die Welt

2006

as Self

La Traviata

2006

as Violetta Valéry

2005 - Renee Fleming & Claire Bloom

2005

as Self

Christmas in Washington

2003

as Self

Gala Concert: 300 Years of St. Petersburg

2003

as Self - Soloist

Rusalka

2002

as Rusalka

Ladies & Gentlemen, Miss Renée Fleming

2002

as Self

Bride of the Wind

2001

as Frances Alda

Manon

2001

as Manon Lescaut

Don Giovanni

2000

as Donna Anna

A Streetcar Named Desire - The San Francisco Opera World Premiere

1998

as Blanche Dubois

Le Nozze di Figaro

1998

as Contessa d'Almaviva

Metropolitan Opera Gala James Levine's 25th Anniversary

1996

as Self

The Metropolitan Opera: Otello

1995

as Desdemona

Otello

1995

as Desdemona

The Dangerous Liaisons - San Francisco Opera

1994

as Madame de Tourvel

Le Nozze di Figaro

1994

as Countess Almaviva

Le nozze di Figaro

1994

as The Countess

The Ghosts of Versailles

1992

as Rosina

Live from Lincoln Center

1976

as Self

Great Performances

1971

as Mme. de Tourvel

Great Performances

1971

as Blanche Dubois

Great Performances

1971

as Self