Renée Fleming
Singer, Musical Artist
1959 –
Who is Renée Fleming?
Renée Fleming is an American 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.
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- Born
- Feb 14, 1959
Indiana - Also known as
- Renee Fleming
- Fleming, Renee
- Fleming, Renée
- Spouses
- Richard Lee Ross
(1989 - 2000) - Tim Jessell
(2011/09/03 - )
- Richard Lee Ross
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Eastman School of Music
- Juilliard School
- State University of New York at Potsdam
- Crane School of Music
- Employment
- Metropolitan Opera
- Lived in
- Rochester
- Indiana
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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