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.
Recital
Voice of Nature: The Anthropocene, inspired by Renée Fleming's Grammy-winning album, pairs live performance with an original film created by the National Geographic Society. Together, sound and imagery reflect on humanity’s relationship with the natural world, offering a powerful meditation on climate, beauty, and responsibility.
Strathmore Music Center
Bethesda, MD
Concert
America’s most celebrated soprano Renée Fleming joins the Hawaiʻi Symphony Orchestra and conductor Dane Lam for a Halekulani Masterworks season finale Inspired by her 2023 GRAMMY® Award-winning album, Voice of Nature: the Anthropocene, with stunning film projections by the National Geographic Society.
Neal S. Blaisdell Concert Hall
Honolulu, HI
Concert: The Fiddle and the Drum
Renée Fleming with Béla Fleck: The Fiddle and the Drum feat. My Bluegrass Heart
Telluride Bluegrass Festival Main Stage
Telluride, CO
Opening Concert
The Aspen Festival Orchestra opens its season with Music Director Robert Spano in an all-American concert honoring our nation’s 250th anniversary! Celebrate this milestone with performances of twentieth-century favorites by opera luminaries Renée Fleming and Thomas Hampson, and the Denver-based Kantorei.
Klein Music Tent
Aspen, CO
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Soprano Renée Fleming returns to Festival Napa Valley in Voice of Nature: The Anthropocene, a multimedia concert inspired by her 2023 Grammy Award-winning album. Also on the program, Bouchaine Young Artists Hina & Fiona perform the world premiere of John Corigliano's The Red Violin: Suite for Two Violins and Orchestra, commissioned by Festival Napa Valley.
Festival Napa Valley Stage at Charles Krug
St. Helena, CA
Concert
Simon, Barber, and Selections from Nixon in China with Renée Fleming and Thomas Hampson, maestro Andris Nelsons, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra
Koussevitzky Music Shed, Tanglewood
Lenox/Stockbridge, MA
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