Biography
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 17 Grammy Awards and has won four times. Other notable awards have included 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.
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.
She studied with Patricia Misslin at the Crane School of Music at the State University of New York at Potsdam. While at SUNY Potsdam, she took up singing with a jazz trio in an off-campus bar called Alger's. The jazz saxophonist Illinois Jacquet invited her on tour with his big band, but she chose instead to continue with graduate studies at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, with voice teacher John Maloy. ...
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Filmography
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Movies 89
self 54
TV Shows 11
Wayne Shorter: Zero Gravity (2023)
John Adams: Nixon in China (2023)
The Metropolitan Opera: The Hours (2022)
NEXT at the Kennedy Center (2022)
The Metropolitan Opera: La Traviata (2022)
Renée Fleming's Cities That Sing - Paris (2022)
The Kennedy Center at 50 (2021)
Myths and Hymns (2021)
Metropolitan Opera At Home Gala (2020)
Built Beautiful: An Architecture and Neuroscience Love Story (2020)
Klassik am Odeonsplatz 2019 (2019)
Poulenc: Dialogues des Carmélites (2019)
Bel Canto (2018)
Der Rosenkavalier (2017)
StraussR: Der Rosenkavalier (2017)
Bosch: The Garden of Dreams (2016)
Strauss: Elektra (2016)
The Metropolitan Opera: Turandot (2016)
The Metropolitan Opera: The Merry Widow (2015)
The Metropolitan Opera: The Master-Singers of Nuremberg (2014)
The Metropolitan Opera: The Marriage of Figaro (2014)
Arabella (2014)
The Metropolitan Opera: Così Fan Tutte (2014)
The Metropolitan Opera: Rusalka (2014)
The Metropolitan Opera: Falstaff (2013)
The Metropolitan Opera: Tosca (2013)
Capriccio (2013)
The Metropolitan Opera: Giulio Cesare (2013)
The Metropolitan Opera: Rigoletto (2013)
The Metropolitan Opera: Aida (2012)
The Metropolitan Opera: Otello (2012)
Bruckner - Symphony No. 7 & Wolf - Lieder (2012)
Richard Strauss - Ariadne Auf Naxos (2012)
Ariadne Auf Naxos (2012)
Meisterwerke der Klassik (2012)
Händel: Rodelinda (2011)
The Metropolitan Opera: Siegfried (2011)
The Metropolitan Opera: Don Giovanni (2011)
The Metropolitan Opera: Anna Bolena (2011)
Margaret (2011)
Lucrezia Borgia (2011)
The Metropolitan Opera: Il Trovatore (2011)
The Metropolitan Opera: Capriccio (2011)
Le comte Ory (2011)
The Metropolitan Opera: Lucia di Lammermoor (2011)
Waldbühne 2010 | An Evening with Renée Fleming (2010)
Rossini: Armida (2010)
Masterclass (2010)
Thomas: Hamlet (2010)
Simon Boccanegra [The Metropolitan Opera] (2010)
Bizet: Carmen (2010)
The Met — Der Rosenkavalier (2010)
Verdi: Aida (2009)
Faszinierende Frauen - Faszinierende Stimmen (2009)
La Traviata (2009)
André Previn - A Bridge between two Worlds (2009)
The Metropolitan Opera: Madama Butterfly (2009)
Strauss R: Der Rosenkavalier (2009)
We Are One With President-Elect Barack Obama (2009)
The Metropolitan Opera: Puccini's La Rondine (2009)
Massenet: Thaïs (2008)
Opening Night Gala Starring Renée Fleming (2008)
Manon Lescaut – The Met (2008)
Humperdinck: Hansel und Gretel (2008)
The Metropolitan Opera: Hansel and Gretel (2008)
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live Gounod's Romeo et Juliette (2007)
Voom Portraits (2007)
Arabella (2007)
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin (2007)
Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square featuring Renee Fleming and Claire Bloom (2006)
In Search of Mozart (2006)
La Traviata (2006)
Mythos Mozart - Musik für die Welt (2006)
2005 - Renee Fleming & Claire Bloom (2005)
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (2005)
Christmas in Washington (2003)
imagine… (2003)
Gala Concert: 300 Years of St. Petersburg (2003)
Rusalka (2002)
Ladies & Gentlemen, Miss Renée Fleming (2002)
Bride of the Wind (2001)
Manon (2001)
Don Giovanni (2000)
A Streetcar Named Desire - The San Francisco Opera World Premiere (1998)
Le Nozze di Figaro (1998)
The Kindness of Strangers (1998)
The View (1997)
Metropolitan Opera Gala James Levine's 25th Anniversary (1996)
The Metropolitan Opera: Otello (1995)
Otello (1995)
The Dangerous Liaisons - San Francisco Opera (1994)
Le Nozze di Figaro (1994)
Le nozze di Figaro (1994)
The Ghosts of Versailles (1992)
ZDF-Mittagsmagazin (1989)
Live from Lincoln Center (1976)
III nach neun (1974)
Great Performances (1971)
Renée Fleming's Cities that Sing - Venice
United in Song: Celebrating the Resilience of America
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GenderFemale
Birthday1959-02-14 (65 years old)
Birth PlaceIndiana, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
ResidencesNew York City, United States of America
Also Known AsRenee Fleming
AwardsNational Medal of Arts, Fulbright Program, Fulbright Scholarship, Echo Klassik Female Singer of the Year, Richard Tucker Award, honorary doctor of Harvard University, Legion of Honour
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