
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. ... Source: Article "Renée Fleming" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
80 acting credits
Acting · 80

The View
1997

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005

Great Performances
1971

Stars in the House
2020
3 nach 9
1974

Le monde est à vous
1987
ZDF-Mittagsmagazin
1989

Live from Lincoln Center
1976

Margaret
2011

We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial
2009

Masterclass
2010

Voom Portraits
2007

The Diamond Jubilee Concert 2012
2012
Meisterwerke der Klassik
2012

Bride of the Wind
2001

Händel: Rodelinda
2011

The Metropolitan Opera: Il Trovatore
2011

The Metropolitan Opera: The Merry Widow
2015

The Metropolitan Opera: Hansel and Gretel
2008

The Metropolitan Opera: Lucia di Lammermoor
2011

In Search of Mozart
2006

The Kennedy Center at 50
2021

The Metropolitan Opera HD Live Gounod's Romeo et Juliette
2007

The Metropolitan Opera: The Hours
2022

Myths and Hymns
2021

Massenet: Thaïs
2008

Bosch: The Garden of Dreams
2016

Otello
1995

The Metropolitan Opera: Così Fan Tutte
2014

Waldbühne 2010 | An Evening with Renée Fleming
2010

André Previn - A Bridge between two Worlds
2009

Renée Fleming's Cities That Sing - Paris
2022

Strauss R: Der Rosenkavalier
2009

The Metropolitan Opera: Rigoletto
2013

The Metropolitan Opera: Don Giovanni
2011

The Metropolitan Opera: Otello
2012

Opening Night Gala Starring Renée Fleming
2008

Richard Strauss - Ariadne Auf Naxos
2012

Metropolitan Opera Gala James Levine's 25th Anniversary
1996

Camelot: Live from Lincoln Center
2008

The Metropolitan Opera: Rusalka
2014

The Marriage of Figaro
1994

Royal Opera House: La Traviata
2009

Capriccio
2013

Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square featuring Renee Fleming and Claire Bloom
2006

The Ghosts of Versailles
1992

The Met — Der Rosenkavalier
2010

Metropolitan Opera At Home Gala
2020

Built Beautiful: An Architecture and Neuroscience Love Story
2020

Arabella
2014

Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro
1994

Der Rosenkavalier
2017

Le Nozze di Figaro
1998

Rusalka
2002

Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
2007

The Metropolitan Opera: Hamlet
2010

La Traviata
2006

The Metropolitan Opera: La Traviata
2022

Manon Lescaut – The Met
2008

Manon
2001

The Metropolitan Opera: Capriccio
2011

Poulenc: Dialogues des Carmélites
2019

Ladies & Gentlemen, Miss Renée Fleming
2002

Christmas in Washington
2003

The Dangerous Liaisons - San Francisco Opera
1994

Gala Concert: 300 Years of St. Petersburg
2003
2005 - Renee Fleming & Claire Bloom
2005

Arabella
2007

Lucrezia Borgia
2011

Rossini: Armida
2010

Renee Fleming: Sacred Songs
2006

A Streetcar Named Desire - The San Francisco Opera World Premiere
1998

John Adams: Nixon in China
2023
Mythos Mozart - Musik für die Welt
2006
Faszinierende Frauen - Faszinierende Stimmen
2009

Don Giovanni
2000

Sommernachtskonzert 2017
2017

Klassik am Odeonsplatz 2019
2019

A Recital with Renée Fleming: Vienna at the Turn of the 20th Century
2014

Bruckner - Symphony No. 7 & Wolf - Lieder
2012