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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Gender
Female
Birthday
1959-02-14
Place of birth
Indiana, Pennsylvania, USA
The Kennedy Center at 50
2021
10.00
Klassik am Odeonsplatz 2019
2019
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Le nozze di Figaro
1994
4.00
John Adams: Nixon in China
2023
4.00
Otello
1995
4.50
Strauss R: Der Rosenkavalier
2009
9.50
La Traviata
2009
7.00
Massenet: Thaïs
2008
0.00
In Search of Mozart
2006
6.83
La Traviata
2006
8.00
Händel: Rodelinda
2011
0.00
Manon
2001
0.00
Don Giovanni
2000
10.00
Bride of the Wind
2001
4.00
Rusalka
2002
0.00
The Marriage of Figaro
1994
9.00
The Metropolitan Opera: Otello
2012
0.00
Ariadne Auf Naxos
2012
0.00
Rossini: Armida
2010
0.00
The Metropolitan Opera: Rusalka
2014
0.00
Bosch: The Garden of Dreams
2016
7.20
Der Rosenkavalier
2017
7.00
Lucrezia Borgia
2011
9.00
Arabella
2007
0.00
The Ghosts of Versailles
1992
0.00
Le Nozze di Figaro
1998
0.00
The Met — Der Rosenkavalier
2010
0.00
Christmas in Washington
2003
8.00
Capriccio
2013
0.00
Arabella
2014
0.00
Margaret
2011
6.30
Metropolitan Opera At Home Gala
2020
9.00
Thomas: Hamlet
2010
0.00
Manon Lescaut – The Met
2008
0.00
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
2007
0.00
Myths and Hymns
2021
0.00
The Metropolitan Opera: Otello
1995
0.00
Voom Portraits
2007
10.00
The Diamond Jubilee Concert 2012
2012
8.20
Sommernachtskonzert 2017
2017
8.00