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person_profile-Renée Fleming

Renée Fleming Age: 65

Actor | Producer

Date of Birth:

Feb 14, 1959

Country of birth:

USA

Biography of

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 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. ...

    Source: Article "Renée Fleming" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Filmography of

Renée Fleming

Found 57 Movies in total

John Adams: Nixon in China

Pat Nixon ( Actor )

... 2023

The Metropolitan Opera: The Hours

Clarissa Vaughn ( Actor )

... 2022

... 2021

... 2019

Der Rosenkavalier

The Marschallin ( Actor )

... 2017

... 2015

Arabella

Arabella ( Actor )

... 2014

... 2014

... 2014

Capriccio

Die Gräfin ( Actor )

... 2013

... 2013

... 2012

... 2012

The Diamond Jubilee Concert 2012

Self - Performer ( Actor )

... 2012

Händel: Rodelinda

Rodelinda, Queen of Milan, wife of Bertarido ( Actor )

... 2011

... 2011

Margaret

Opera Singer ( Actor )

... 2011

Lucrezia Borgia

Lucrezia Borgia ( Actor )

... 2011

... 2011

... 2011

Rossini: Armida

Armida ( Actor )

... 2010

Thomas: Hamlet

Self - Host ( Actor )

... 2010

La Traviata

Violetta ( Actor )

... 2009

Strauss R: Der Rosenkavalier

Feldmarschallin ( Actor )

... 2009

Massenet: Thaïs

Thaïs ( Actor )

... 2008

Opening Night Gala Starring Renée Fleming

Violetta / Manon / Countess ( Actor )

... 2008

Manon Lescaut – The Met

Self - Host ( Actor )

... 2008

... 2008

Voom Portraits

Self ( Actor )

... 2007

Arabella

Arabella ( Actor )

... 2007

... 2007

In Search of Mozart

Self ( Actor )

... 2006

La Traviata

Violetta Valéry ( Actor )

... 2006

Rusalka

Rusalka ( Actor )

... 2002

Bride of the Wind

Frances Alda ( Actor )

... 2001

Manon

Manon Lescaut ( Actor )

... 2001

Don Giovanni

Donna Anna ( Actor )

... 2000

... 1995

Otello

Desdemona ( Actor )

... 1995

... 1994

Le nozze di Figaro

The Countess ( Actor )

... 1994

... 1992