Renee Fleming

Renée Fleming (born February 14, 1959) is an American opera singer and soprano whose repertoire encompasses Richard Strauss, Mozart, Handel, bel canto, lieder, French opera and chansons, jazz and indie rock. Fleming has a full lyric soprano voice. She has performed coloratura, lyric, and lighter spinto soprano operatic roles in Italian, German, French, Czech, and Russian, aside from her native English. She also speaks fluent German and French, along with limited Italian. Her signature roles include Countess Almaviva in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, Desdemona in Verdi's Otello, Violetta in Verdi's La traviata, the title role in Dvořák's Rusalka, the title role in Massenet's Manon, the title role in Massenet's Thaïs, the title role in Richard Strauss's Arabella, the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier, and the Countess in Capriccio.

A National Medal of Arts and Richard Tucker Award winner, she regularly performs in opera houses and concert halls worldwide. In 2008, she was awarded the Swedish Polar Music Prize for her services in music. She serves as Creative Consultant for the Lyric Opera of Chicago.

Conductor Sir Georg Solti said of Fleming, "In my long life, I have met maybe two sopranos with this quality of singing; the other was Renata Tebaldi."

Discography:
Donizetti: Rosmonda d'Inghilterra, Opera Rara 1994
Strauss Four Last Songs, RCA 1996
Visions of Love – Mozart Arias, Decca 1996
Schubert Lieder, Decca 1997
Signatures – Great Opera Scenes, arias by Mozart, Verdi, Britten, Strauss, with Sir Georg Solti, Decca 1997
Elijah (Mendelssohn), Decca 1997
Rusalka (1997)
A Streetcar Named Desire (1997)
The Beautiful Voice, Decca 1998
I Want Magic American Opera Arias, Decca 1998
Star Crossed Lovers Duets with Plácido Domingo, Decca 1999
Strauss Heroines, Decca 1999
Requiem (Verdi) with Andrea Bocelli, Olga Borodina and Ildebrando D'Arcangelo, conducted by Valery Gergiev, Philips 2001
Renée Fleming, Decca 2001
Night Songs Lieder by Debussy, Fauré, Marx, Strauss, Rachmaninov, Decca 2001
Thaïs (2001)
Manon (2001)
Bel Canto Arias by Donizetti, Bellini, Rossini, Decca 2002
Under the Stars Broadway Duets with Bryn Terfel, Decca 2003
By Request, Decca 2003
Mozart: Così fan tutte, Decca
Handel: Alcina, Erato
Rossini: Armida, Sony (live)
Mozart: Don Giovanni, Decca
Massenet: Hérodiade, Sony (live)
Handel Arias, Decca 2003/2004
Requiem (Verdi), Philips 2004
Haunted Heart, Decca 2005
Sacred Songs, Decca 2005
Homage – The Age of the Diva, Decca 2006
Love Sublime Song cycles with Brad Mehldau, Nonesuch, 2006
Strauss: Daphne, Decca
Four Last Songs by Richard Strauss, Decca 2008
Verismo – Arias of Puccini, Mascagni, Cilea, Giordano, Leoncavallo, Decca 2009
Dark Hope, Decca 2010
Poèmes – French songs, Decca 2012
Guilty Pleasures – Wide range of opera arias, Decca 2013
Christmas in New York, Decca 2014
Distant Light, Decca 2017

Renee Fleming in the news

	Baritone Will Liverman Announces New EP 'The Dunbar/Moore Sessions - Volume I' (10/10/2023)
	'United In Song 2022: Ringing In The New Year' Hosted By Renee Fleming With Chris Jackson, Premieres New Year's Eve, Saturday, December 31, On PBS (27/12/2022)
	Renee Fleming To Release 'Greatest Moments At The Met' Album (24/11/2022)
	Tickets For Renee Fleming's Cities That Sing - Paris Available For Purchase August 30th (19/08/2022)
	Acclaimed Opera Singer Renee Fleming To Perform At Florida Southern's Branscomb Auditorium In January (04/01/2022)
	Renee Fleming, Alison Krauss, Rhiannon Giddens And Yannick Nezet-Seguin Release New Single 'Before The Deluge' (15/11/2021)
	Carmen Ruby Floyd Releases Her Debut Album 'Broadway, Jazz Me!' (28/09/2021)
	Music Got Me Here Screening Free For Brain Injury Awareness Month (28/03/2021)
	Lang Lang & Friends Virtual Concert: Reaching Dreams Through Music December 12, 2020 (09/12/2020)
	Renee Fleming & The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Present Stunning New Track "When You Wish Upon A Star" (22/07/2020)