
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. ...
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 2.161 |
Birthday | 1959-02-14 |
Place of Birth | Indiana, Pennsylvania, USA |
Also Known As | Renee Fleming, |

2021

The Kennedy Center at 50
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2019

Klassik am Odeonsplatz 2019
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2020

Built Beautiful: An Architecture and Neuroscience Love Story
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2006

Mythos Mozart - Musik für die Welt
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2009

Faszinierende Frauen - Faszinierende Stimmen
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2006

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1994

Le nozze di Figaro
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2002

Ladies & Gentlemen, Miss Renée Fleming
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2009

André Previn - A Bridge between two Worlds
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2023

John Adams: Nixon in China
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1995

Otello
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2009

Strauss R: Der Rosenkavalier
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2009

La Traviata
7/1
Renée Fleming has matured into one of the finest sopranos around at the moment, a true star with a sparkling personality and a velvet-toned voice that...
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2022

The Metropolitan Opera: La Traviata
7/1
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2008

Massenet: Thaïs
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2022

The Metropolitan Opera: The Hours
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2006

In Search of Mozart
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2006

La Traviata
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This superb 2006 production of the Los Angeles Opera's La Traviata stars Renée Fleming, who joins the ranks of the elite handful of sopranos whose voc...
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2011

Händel: Rodelinda
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Renée Fleming stars in the title role of one of Handel’s greatest dramas, seen in Stephen Wadsworth’s 2004 Met premiere production. Rodelinda is faced...
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2011

The Metropolitan Opera: Il Trovatore
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2022

Renée Fleming's Cities That Sing - Paris
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2005

2005 - Renee Fleming & Claire Bloom
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1994

The Dangerous Liaisons - San Francisco Opera
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2001

Manon
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2011

The Metropolitan Opera: Capriccio
8/1
Renée Fleming is Countess Madeleine, the beautiful, enigmatic woman at the center of Strauss’s sophisticated “Conversation Piece for Music.” She is be...
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2000

Don Giovanni
10/1
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2001

Bride of the Wind
4.3/6
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2002

Rusalka
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1994

Le Nozze di Figaro
9/1
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2012

The Metropolitan Opera: Otello
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2012

Ariadne Auf Naxos
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1996

Metropolitan Opera Gala James Levine's 25th Anniversary
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2012

Richard Strauss - Ariadne Auf Naxos
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2010

Rossini: Armida
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It is a rare opera indeed that calls for one soprano diva and no fewer than six tenors. Mary Zimmerman’s fanciful production of Rossini’s drama, desig...
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2014

The Metropolitan Opera: Rusalka
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Renée Fleming sings one of her signature roles, the title character in Dvořák’s sumptuously melodic Rusalka. The story of the opera, which is about a...
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2015

The Metropolitan Opera: The Merry Widow
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2016

Bosch: The Garden of Dreams
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2017

Der Rosenkavalier
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2011

Lucrezia Borgia
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2007

Arabella
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2012

Bruckner - Symphony No. 7 & Wolf - Lieder
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1992

The Ghosts of Versailles
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1998

Le Nozze di Figaro
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2010

The Met — Der Rosenkavalier
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2003

Christmas in Washington
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2013

Capriccio
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Richard Strauss' last stage work is an opera about opera as an art form, depicting the creation of a music drama in a wise and witty way. Which came f...
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2010

Waldbühne 2010 | An Evening with Renée Fleming
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2014

Arabella
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2011

Margaret
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2020

Metropolitan Opera At Home Gala
9/1
In its most ambitious effort yet to bring the joy and artistry of opera to audiences everywhere during the Met’s closure, the company presented an unp...
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2010

Thomas: Hamlet
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After over a century out of the Met’s repertoire, audiences were thrilled to discover just what a sensational evening in the theater Thomas’s Hamlet c...
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2019

Poulenc: Dialogues des Carmélites
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Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads the classic John Dexter production of Poulenc’s devastating story of faith and martyrdom. Mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard sing...
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2013

The Metropolitan Opera: Rigoletto
8.5/2
Michael Mayer’s acclaimed production, first seen in the 2012–13 season, sets the action of Verdi’s masterpiece in 1960 Las Vegas—a neon-lit world rule...
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2008

The Metropolitan Opera: Hansel and Gretel
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This deliciously dark take on the beloved Brothers Grimm fairy tale, appealing to audiences of all ages, was part of the Met’s popular English-languag...
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2011

The Metropolitan Opera: Don Giovanni
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Imbuing the familiar Don Juan myth with a captivating combination of comedy, seductiveness, danger, and damnation, Mozart created an enduring masterpi...
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2014

The Metropolitan Opera: Così Fan Tutte
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Met Music director James Levine conducts a cast of youthful stars in Mozart’s sophisticated comedy about testing the ties of love. Susanna Phillips an...
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The Metropolitan Opera: Così Fan Tutte

2007

The Metropolitan Opera HD Live Gounod's Romeo et Juliette
8/1
The world’s most famous love story comes to operatic life with superstars Anna Netrebko and Roberto Alagna playing the star-crossed young couple. The...
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2008

Manon Lescaut – The Met
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One of today’s most compelling singing actresses, Karita Mattila takes on the irresistible role of Manon Lescaut, the headstrong young woman torn betw...
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2011

The Metropolitan Opera: Lucia di Lammermoor
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The tragic tale of "the bride of Lammermoor" has always been a favorite of opera-goers and sopranos alike. Yet with the riveting singing actress Natal...
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2003

Gala Concert: 300 Years of St. Petersburg
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Celebrating three hundred years of the founding of St. Petersburg by Peter The Great. Dazzling staging and magnificent performances from ballet and op...
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Gala Concert: 300 Years of St. Petersburg

2007

Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
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The pain of unrequited love is portrayed unforgettably by two of today’s greatest stars. Renée Fleming is musically and dramatically radiant as the sh...
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Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin

1998

A Streetcar Named Desire - The San Francisco Opera World Premiere
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As Blanche’s fragile world crumbles, she turns to her sister Stella for solace – but her downward spiral brings her face to face with the brutal, unfo...
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A Streetcar Named Desire - The San Francisco Opera World Premiere

2021

Myths and Hymns
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A kaleidoscopic collection of musical genres, Myths and Hymns explores the nature of faith and longing in a secular world, with 23 short musical films...
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Myths and Hymns

1995

The Metropolitan Opera: Otello
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Verdi’s monumental score is fully the equal of Shakespeare’s famous tragedy—and both demand great actors. This is one performance where both playwrigh...
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The Metropolitan Opera: Otello

2009

We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial
4.6/5
A public celebration of the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States of America at the Lincoln Memorial and the Nationa...
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2007

Voom Portraits
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2008

Opening Night Gala Starring Renée Fleming
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Keeping with a long-standing tradition, Renee Fleming kicks off the new season at the Met with scenes from Verdi's Traviata, Massenet's Manon, and Str...
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2012

The Diamond Jubilee Concert 2012
8.2/2
In the presence of HM the Queen and the royal family, an array of stars from the last sixty years of rock, pop and classical music perform on a specta...
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