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LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO
Renée Fleming, First-Ever Creative Consultant for Lyric Opera of Chicago
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Renée Fleming Meets Anders Hillborg
10 May 2013
The sickness of angels is nothing new
I have seen them crawling like bees
Flightless, chewing their tongues, not singing.
– (From Dark Harbor XXXV, by Mark Strand)
Renée and Susan Graham team up for a "Soirée Française
23 January 2013
This month and next, Renée is joining her friend Susan Graham on a rare duo recital tour of elegant French vocal treasures, including the “Flower Duet” from Delibes’s Lakmé, the Barcarolle from Offenbach’s Les contes d’Hoffmann, Fauré’s achingly beautiful “Pavane,” and Debussy’s “Mandoline,” “Beau soir,” and “Clair de lune” (for solo piano). Other highlights include songs by Reynaldo Hahn and duets by Berlioz, Fauré, Saint-Saëns, and Messager. With pianist Bradley Moore, Renée and Susan hope to conjure the world of the Belle Époque salon, where legendary divas mixed with artists, composers, and the beau (and demi-) monde. To see the ladies'' candid chat about the program, their friendship, and their on-stage history together, click here and here. The LA Times called the recital, "Ravishing, haunting — a kind of perfumed pleasure that belongs, hélas, to a bygone era." To read the full review, click here.
photo courtesy of Craig T. Mathew/ LA Phil
Grammy® Nomination for “Poèmes”
6 December 2012
For the 55th Annual Grammy Awards, Renée Fleming has been nominated for Best Classical Vocal Solo for Poèmes. A three-time Grammy winner, Ms. Fleming won the 2010 Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Performance for Verismo (Decca/September 2009), a CD featuring a collection of rarely heard Italian arias.
Renée Named 2012 Singer of the Year
6 August 2012
The German ECHO Awards have announced that Renée will receive the "Singer of the Year" award on October 14 for her Decca/Universal album"Poèmes," featuring music of Ravel, Messiaen, and Dutilleux.
The Art of Renée Fleming
18 June 2012
The Art of Renée Fleming, Decca's new anthology album of Renée's most popular arias and songs (including Un bel di and Somewhere, which she performed for Queen Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee Concert) entered iTune's UK top five classical albums in its first week of release!
Opening Night: Arabella at Opera de Paris
14 June 2012
Philippe Jordan conducts Renée in the title role, in a new production by Marco Arturo Marelli, with Michael Volle, Kurt Rydl, Doris Soffel, Julia Kleiter, Genia Kühmeier, and Joseph Kaiser
Photo by Ian Patrick
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Renée sings "Un bel di" for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Concert
"Un bel di vedremo" from Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini. The Diamond Jubilee BBC Concert - June 2012
Dark Hope Trailer
Renée Fleming's new album Dark Hope, which the opera star describes as a "visit to a new, parallel universe," now available on iTunes and Amazon.
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THE INNER VOICE
The Making of a singer
The Inner Voice traces Renée Fleming’s path to maturity and success as an artist, from her youth as the child of two singing teachers through her years at Julliard, from her struggles to establish her career to her international success. Her articulate and candid book is the most revelatory examination yet of a performing life, of the crucial roles played by a solid education and supportive mentors, of the importance of discipline and a well-established technique, of confronting the challenges of stress and self-doubt, of the myriad details that must be mastered in creating a vivid operatic character or interpreting a song, of the practical necessity of having a firm understanding of how business functions, and of learning to balance personal and professional fulfillment.
