"Fleming’s voice floats and blooms with its customary beauty.
Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s
piano playing flickers like starlight"
The New Yorker
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.
The Sea and the Light
Concert
Conductor Gemma New leads the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in a program inspired by art and the sea. Mendelssohn’s The Hebrides Overture, Debussy’s La mer, and Kevin Puts’ The Brightness of Light, based on letters between iconic artist Georgia O'Keefe and her husband, photographer Alfred Stieglitz. Renée Fleming and Rod Gilfry give voice to O’Keeffe and Stieglitz.
Strathmore Music Center
North Bethesda, MD
The Sea and the Light
Concert
Conductor Gemma New leads the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in a program inspired by art and the sea. Mendelssohn’s The Hebrides Overture, Debussy’s La mer, and Kevin Puts’ The Brightness of Light, based on letters between iconic artist Georgia O'Keefe and her husband, photographer Alfred Stieglitz. Renée Fleming and Rod Gilfry give voice to O’Keeffe and Stieglitz.
Meyerhoff Symphony Hall
Baltimore, MD
Recital
The Harriman-Jewell series presents Renée Fleming in recital with pianist Robert Ainsley
Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts
Kansas City, MO
Recital
Kravis Center for the Performing Arts
West Palm Beach, FL
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"What the World Needs Now"
From "A Time to Sing": Renée Fleming and Vanessa Williams in Concert
This live-streamed concert on September 26 was the first performance on a Kennedy Center stage since March! It was sheer joy to sing with my friend Vanessa Williams, with a live (socially-distanced) audience. You can watch the concert on demand through the end of the year-
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Three Billboards- The Last Rose of Summer
Renée's recording of "The Last Rose of Summer" is featured in the opening credits and soundtrack of Oscar nominee Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
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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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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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Distant Light
The great American soprano Renée Fleming shows with this ambitious album that she is far from renouncing musical frolics. True, there’s quintessential Fleming repertoire on it — a gorgeous performance of Samuel Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 — but Fleming also presents a new orchestral song cycle written especially for her: The Strand Settings, by the Swedish composer Anders Hillborg. Then there are three songs by Björk. No tame excursions into crossover, these, but superbly reimagined arrangements. The Times of London
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Renée Fleming returns to the Houston Symphony in triumph
Houston Chronicle
A Songbird in Seclusion
The New York Times
Powerful, poignant Renee Fleming brightens ‘The Light in the Piazza’
Chicago Sun-TImes