Mozart’s Così fan tutte: judging by the audience’s enthusiastic response, Renée Fleming hit a bullseye.
Aspen Times | Jul 23, 2025 Harvey Steiman
Advocacy
Through a wide range of activities, Renée Fleming works to affirm the importance of the arts, partnering with artists, scientists, not-for-profit organizations, and educators to demonstrate the benefits of music and the arts for our health, community, and culture.
Leadership
Across the country, in leadership positions and advisory relationships, Renée Fleming guides the work of major arts institutions, encourages the creation of new work, and mentors young singers beginning their careers.
Concerts: The Fiddle and the Drum
Renée Fleming and Béla Fleck will bring The Fiddle and the Drum to the stage this year with a series of special concerts, featuring Fleck’s all-star bluegrass band My Bluegrass Heart. The duo will debut at Nashville’s storied Grand Ole Opry on May 16. Additional appearances include the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, and the Chautauqua Institution, with more dates announced soon. The run will culminate with a special concert at Carnegie Hall on December 3. Guests from the album will join along the way, including Aoife O’Donovan and Sierra Hull.
Concert
Renée Fleming returns to Verbier with an immersive experience, blending her voice with stunning imagery from the National Geographic Society, in Voice of Nature: the Anthropocene. In the second half, Lahav Shani conducts Brahms’s final symphony, arguably the German composer’s most accomplished work.
Salle des Combins
Verbier, Switzerland
Concert
As part of the Shirley Young Distinguished Artist Series, renowned soprano Renée Fleming joins the young artists of Interlochen's World Youth Symphony Orchestra for Voice of Nature: The Anthropocene
Kresge Auditorium, Interlochen Center for the Arts
Interlochen, MI
Concert: The Fiddle and the Drum
This collaboration brings together 5x Grammy winning soprano Renée Fleming and 19x Grammy-winning banjo virtuoso Béla Fleck for a celebration of Appalachian folk music, weaving the expressive depth of Fleming’s voice with the brilliance of Fleck’s banjo and his all-star My Bluegrass Heart band. Through mountain songs, haunting ballads, and folk hymns, The Fiddle and the Drum honors the roots and emotional power of Appalachia.
Amphitheater, Chautauqua Institution
Chautauqua, NY
Concert: The Fiddle and the Drum
Prolific Grammy winners Renée Fleming and Béla Fleck join forces in this celebration of Appalachian folk music, featuring a program of mountain songs, haunting ballads, and folk hymns. The Fiddle and the Drum mines a rich vein of American musical heritage, brought to life by Fleming’s expressive singing, Fleck’s banjo virtuosity, and his My Bluegrass Heart all-star band with Aoife O’Donovan.
Carnegie Hall
New York City
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Renée Fleming’s Cities that Sing
Official Trailer for the New IMAX Live and Stage Access production
Dates announced and tickets on sale now for Cities that Sing! Join Renée on an enchanting voyage through the City of Lights and the birthplace of opera! IMAX and StageAccess present the epic journey starting with Cities That Sing: Paris on August 26 and Cities That Sing: Venice on September 16.
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You'll Never Walk Alone, Lincoln Memorial
Renée sings at the televised "We Are One: The Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial" concert for President Obama.
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‘You’ll Never Know’ from The Shape of Water
Renée sings the classic Hollywood song "You'll Never Know" on Alexandre Desplat's Oscar-winning soundtrack for the 2018 Best Picture winner, The Shape of Water
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Casta Diva, Yusupov Palace, St. Petersburg
In "A Musical Odyssey in St. Petersburg," Reneé hosted a concert tour of the dazzling palace theatres of St. Petersburg, singing with her friend, the great Russian baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky.
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Voice of Nature: the Anthropocene
Voice of Nature: The Anthropocene is Renée's 2023 Grammy Award-winning album with Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Inspired by the solace Renée found while hiking near her Virginia home during lockdown, the album explores the inspiring connection to the natural world in Romantic-era song and, with three world-premiere recordings, highlights the peril and fragility of the planet today. She remarks, “This music begins in a time almost two centuries ago, when people had a profound connection to the beauty of nature. Now, in the anthropocene — the age of man — we see the effects of our own activity, and the fragility of our environment. Nature has been so good to us: we have not been so good to nature.”
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"I look for mastery of skills, artistry, artistic imagination, a certain curiosity about repertoire. Obviously, the instrument is important as well. I try to be honest in a master class setting and convey what I really think, but with kindness, with respect.."
August 14, 2025 by Maria-Cristina Necula in Woman Around Town
"For me, the highlight of the
evening was ...’Twilight and
Shadow,’ from The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King. The song ...floated serenely and made a perfect fit with Fleming’s creamy sound. It should: it was written for her to sing for the 2003 film’s soundtrack."
Harvey Steinman, Seen and Heard International, December 2, 2024
John Adams’ “Nixon in China,” a 1987 work among the most acclaimed American operas, received its Paris Opera premiere on Saturday night to eight minutes of applause following a revelatory production by Argentine director Valentina Carrasco that replaced literalism with metaphor.
AP, by Ronald Blum, March 27, 2023