Renée Fleming

Birthday: 1959-02-14
Birthplace: Indiana, Pennsylvania, USA
Gender: Female
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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. ...

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Credits

Year Title Character
2023-04-16 John Adams: Nixon in China Pat Nixon
2022-12-10 The Metropolitan Opera: The Hours Clarissa Vaughn
2021-01-13 Myths and Hymns Soloist, "Migratory V"
2017-05-13 Der Rosenkavalier The Marschallin
2015-01-17 The Metropolitan Opera: The Merry Widow Hanna Glawari
2014-06-17 Arabella Arabella
2014-02-08 The Metropolitan Opera: Rusalka Rusalka
2013-06-12 Capriccio Die Gräfin
2012-10-27 The Metropolitan Opera: Otello Desdemona
2012-08-21 Richard Strauss - Ariadne Auf Naxos Ariadne
2012-02-25 Ariadne Auf Naxos Ariadne/Prima Donna
2011-12-03 Händel: Rodelinda Rodelinda, Queen of Milan, wife of Bertarido
2011-09-30 Margaret Opera Singer
2011-05-13 Lucrezia Borgia Lucrezia Borgia
2011-04-23 The Metropolitan Opera: Capriccio The Countess
2010-06-27 Waldbühne 2010 | An Evening with Renée Fleming Soprano
2010-05-01 Rossini: Armida Armida
2010-01-09 The Met — Der Rosenkavalier Princess von Werdenberg
2009-07-05 La Traviata Violetta Valéry
2009-01-31 Strauss R: Der Rosenkavalier Feldmarschallin
2008-12-20 Massenet: Thaïs Thaïs
2008-09-22 Opening Night Gala Starring Renée Fleming Violetta / Manon / Countess
2007-03-21 Arabella Arabella
2007-02-24 Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin Tatiana
2006-01-01 La Traviata Violetta Valéry
2002-12-21 Rusalka Rusalka
2001-06-08 Bride of the Wind Frances Alda
2001-01-01 Manon Manon Lescaut
2000-12-01 Don Giovanni Donna Anna
1998-12-30 A Streetcar Named Desire - The San Francisco Opera World Premiere Blanche Dubois
1998-11-11 Le Nozze di Figaro Contessa d'Almaviva
1995-10-13 The Metropolitan Opera: Otello Desdemona
1995-10-01 Otello Desdemona
1994-09-21 The Dangerous Liaisons - San Francisco Opera Madame de Tourvel
1994-05-28 Le Nozze di Figaro Countess Almaviva
1994-01-01 Le nozze di Figaro The Countess
1992-01-10 The Ghosts of Versailles Rosina