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: The Fiddle and the Drum
For the 4th year in a row, the Americana Association and the Nashville Symphony Association team up to present an Americanafest Special event like no other. A pairing of Nashville Symphony favorites - prolific 6x Grammy winning soprano Renée Fleming and 19x Grammy winning banjo icon Béla Fleck join forces in this celebration of Appalachian folk music.
Schermerhorn Symphony Center
Nashville, TN
Recital: Voice of Nature: the Anthropocene
Five-time Grammy Award-winning Renée Fleming opens Piedmont Opera's 50th Anniversary Season with an extraordinary live performance, combining music with video provided by The National Geographic Society. The program explores humanity's relationship with the natural world, with music ranging from Handel to Bjork and The Lord of the Rings.
Salem Academy and College
Winston-Salem, NC
Concert: The Fiddle and the Drum
Prolific Grammy winners Renée Fleming and Béla Fleck join forces in this celebration of Appalachian folk music. Featuring mountain songs, haunting ballads, and folk hymns, the program 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.
Walt Disney Concert Hall
Los Angeles
Concerts
A delectable double dose of Richard Strauss, from two of his greatest living interpreters, soprano Renée Fleming and debuting guest conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali. In the Four Last Songs, Strauss bids a tender farewell to his life in music. Ein Heldenleben, the symphonic poem that Strauss wrote in his mid-30s, is an impassioned portrait of human successes and failures, told with a flair for the dramatic.
Davies Symphony Hall
San Francisco
Recital: Voice of Nature: the Anthropocene
Voice of Nature: the Anthropocene is an exploration of one of the defining issues of our time—environmental change—through music and imagery. It invites us to consider the beauty and fragility of the natural world and our relationship to it.
Memorial Hall
Chapel Hill, NC
Nixon in China
Political spectacle meets intimate human drama in John Adams’s modern masterpiece. Superstar soprano Renée Fleming and acclaimed baritone Thomas Hampson return to the WNO stage as Pat and Richard Nixon.
DAR Constitution Hall
Washington, DC
Gala Concert
A sweeping concert event featuring Renée Fleming, Thomas Hampson, and Marian Anderson Vocal Award winner Amber R. Monroe, We the People explores humanity’s enduring longing for liberty through some of opera’s most stirring music
DAR Constitution Hall
Washington, DC
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