Renée Fleming
Actor
Born February 14, 1959 in 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."
Filmography
Facing the Wind
John Adams: Nixon in China
Pat Nixon
The Metropolitan Opera: The Hours
Clarissa Vaughn
The Metropolitan Opera: La Traviata
Self - Host
Renée Fleming's Cities That Sing - Paris
Self
The Kennedy Center at 50
Self
Myths and Hymns
Soloist, "Migratory V"
Built Beautiful: An Architecture and Neuroscience Love Story
Self
Metropolitan Opera At Home Gala
Self
Stars in the House
Self
Klassik am Odeonsplatz 2019
Self - Soprano
Poulenc: Dialogues des Carmélites
Self - Host
Secret Song
Bel Canto
Sommernachtskonzert 2017
Self
Der Rosenkavalier
The Marschallin
Bosch: The Garden of Dreams
Self
The Metropolitan Opera: The Merry Widow
Hanna Glawari
A Recital with Renée Fleming: Vienna at the Turn of the 20th Century
Self
Arabella
Arabella
The Metropolitan Opera: Così Fan Tutte
Self - Host
The Metropolitan Opera: Rusalka
Rusalka
Capriccio
Die Gräfin
The Metropolitan Opera: Rigoletto
Self - Host
The Metropolitan Opera: Otello
Desdemona
Bruckner - Symphony No. 7 & Wolf - Lieder
Self
Richard Strauss - Ariadne Auf Naxos
Ariadne
The Diamond Jubilee Concert 2012
Self - Performer
Händel: Rodelinda
Rodelinda, Queen of Milan, wife of Bertarido
The Metropolitan Opera: Don Giovanni
Self - Host
Margaret
Opera Singer
Lucrezia Borgia
Lucrezia Borgia
The Metropolitan Opera: Il Trovatore
Self - Host
The Metropolitan Opera: Capriccio
The Countess
The Metropolitan Opera: Lucia di Lammermoor
Self - Host
Waldbühne 2010 | An Evening with Renée Fleming
Soprano
Rossini: Armida
Armida
Masterclass
Self
The Metropolitan Opera: Hamlet
Self - Host
The Met — Der Rosenkavalier
Princess von Werdenberg
Royal Opera House: La Traviata
Violetta Valéry
André Previn - A Bridge between two Worlds
Self
Strauss R: Der Rosenkavalier
Feldmarschallin
We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial
Self
Massenet: Thaïs
Thaïs
Opening Night Gala Starring Renée Fleming
Violetta / Manon / Countess
Camelot: Live from Lincoln Center
Host
Manon Lescaut – The Met
Self - Host
The Metropolitan Opera: Hansel and Gretel
Self - Host
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live Gounod's Romeo et Juliette
Self - Host
Voom Portraits
Self
Arabella
Arabella
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
Tatiana
Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square featuring Renee Fleming and Claire Bloom
Self
Renee Fleming: Sacred Songs
Self
In Search of Mozart
Self
La Traviata
Violetta Valéry
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Self
Christmas in Washington
Self
Gala Concert: 300 Years of St. Petersburg
Self - Soloist
Rusalka
Rusalka
Ladies & Gentlemen, Miss Renée Fleming
Self
Bride of the Wind
Frances Alda
Manon
Manon Lescaut
Don Giovanni
Donna Anna
A Streetcar Named Desire - The San Francisco Opera World Premiere
Blanche Dubois
Le Nozze di Figaro
Contessa d'Almaviva
The View
Self
Metropolitan Opera Gala James Levine's 25th Anniversary
Self
Otello
Desdemona
The Dangerous Liaisons - San Francisco Opera
Madame de Tourvel
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro
The Countess
The Marriage of Figaro
Countess Almaviva
The Ghosts of Versailles
Rosina
Le monde est à vous
Self
Live from Lincoln Center
Self
Great Performances
Mme. de Tourvel