"L'Heure exquise"

From Voice of Nature: the Anthropocene

This song is featured on my new album with the brilliant Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Our theme was the natural world, as both inspiration and victim of human life. Reynaldo Hahn’s setting of a poem by Paul Verlaine captures the transcendent moment when a couple hold their breath at the perfection of moonrise over a forest. During the shutdown at the start of the pandemic, I found this kind of consolation in long walks outdoors near my home. But in “the age of man,” the climate crisis continues to worsen. I fear that moments like this will only be memories if we don’t act, together and decisively, now.

Videos

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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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What the World Needs Now

This live-streamed concert on September 26 was the first performance on a Kennedy Center Stage since March! Singing with my friend Vanessa Williams was sheer joy. The concert can be streamed on demand through the end of the year-

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Bel Canto Official Trailer

Renée is heard as the singing voice of Roxane, Julianne Moore's American diva embroiled in a hostage crisis, in the film of Ann Patchett's best-selling novel

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America The Beautiful, A Capitol Fourth

Renée sings for the nationally-televised 2018 Independence Day Concert on the West Lawn of the US Capitol.

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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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