Renée Fleming

Known for ActingBorn 1959-02-14 (age 67)Indiana, Pennsylvania, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

The Kennedy Center at 50

Voom Portraits

Rusalka

Strauss R: Der Rosenkavalier

Metropolitan Opera At Home Gala

Lucrezia Borgia

Gala Concert: 300 Years of St. Petersburg

The Ghosts of Versailles

The Metropolitan Opera: Rigoletto

Don Giovanni

The Marriage of Figaro

Live from Lincoln Center

The Diamond Jubilee Concert 2012

Sommernachtskonzert 2017

The Metropolitan Opera: Il Trovatore

The Metropolitan Opera: Capriccio

The Metropolitan Opera HD Live Gounod's Romeo et Juliette

La Traviata

Christmas in Washington

Bosch: The Garden of Dreams

The Metropolitan Opera: La Traviata

Der Rosenkavalier

Royal Opera House: La Traviata

3 nach 9

In Search of Mozart

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

The Metropolitan Opera: The Merry Widow

Margaret

Built Beautiful: An Architecture and Neuroscience Love Story

ZDF-Mittagsmagazin

Great Performances

Bel Canto

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

Otello

The View

Bride of the Wind

John Adams: Nixon in China

Le nozze di Figaro

Camelot: Live from Lincoln Center

Facing the Wind

The Metropolitan Opera: The Hours

Renée Fleming's Cities That Sing - Paris

Myths and Hymns

Stars in the House

Klassik am Odeonsplatz 2019

Poulenc: Dialogues des Carmélites

The Metropolitan Opera: Rusalka

Arabella