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Renée Fleming
Actor, Composer, Producer
Born February 14, 1959 (65 years)
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.
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.
Filmography
| 2023 | The 46th Annual Kennedy Center Honors · as Self - Honoree |
| 2023 | Wayne Shorter: Zero Gravity (TV Series) · as Self - Opera Singer & Soprano |
| 2022 | Next at the Kennedy Center (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2021 | The Kennedy Center at 50 · as Self |
| 2021 | CBS Mornings (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2020 | GMA3: What You Need to Know (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2020 | |
| 2018 | Amanpour and Company (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2018 | The 72nd Annual Tony Awards · as Self - Nominee |
| 2016 | Sunday Today with Willie Geist (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2014 | Super Bowl XLVIII · as Self - National Anthem Performer |
| 2012 | The Diamond Jubilee Concert · as Self - Performer |
| 2012 | CBS Mornings (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2011 | Lidia Celebrates America (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2010 | Point Blank · as Self |
| 2009 | |
| 2008 | Spectacle: Elvis Costello With... (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2008 | The Metropolitan Opera: Hansel and Gretel · as Self - Host |
| 2006 | Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD (TV Series) · as Self - Host |
| 2006 | Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade · as Self |
| 2006 | In Search of Mozart · as Self |
| 2005 | 2005 - Renee Fleming & Claire Bloom · as Herself |
| 2005 | The Martha Stewart Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2005 | The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2004 | The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts · as Self - Performer |
| 2004 | Tavis Smiley (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2003 | Imagine... (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2003 | Caballé, más allá de la música · as Self |
| 2001 | |
| 2000 | BBC Breakfast (TV Series) · as Self - Opera Saprano |
| 1998 | |
| 1997 | The View (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1996 | Fox News Sunday (TV Series) · as Self - Power Player Of The Week |
| 1996 | |
| 1994 | WGN Morning News (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1993 | Late Show with David Letterman (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1991 | Charlie Rose (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1988 | LIVE with Kelly and Mark (TV Series) · as Self - Musical Guest |
| 1985 | Laura Coates Live (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1983 | Frontline (TV Series) · as Self - Opera Singer |
| 1978 | The South Bank Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1976 | Live from Lincoln Center (TV Series) · as Herself |
| 1975 | Good Morning America (TV Series) · as Self - Musical Guest |
| 1974 | 3nach9 (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1971 | Great Performances (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1969 | Sesame Street (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1968 | 60 Minutes (TV Series) · as Self - Opera Singer (segment "the Diva Next Door") |
| 1949 | Music & the Spoken Word (TV Series) · as Self |