Tune in! A musical odyssey in St. Petersburg
31 August 2010
“Renée Fleming & Dmitri Hvorostovsky: A Musical Odyssey in St. Petersburg” premieres this Wednesday, September 1 at 8 pm on PBS (check local listings).
Reneé Fleming and one of her favorite singing partners, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, explore the origins of 19th-century European opera performance in the courtly theatres of St. Petersburg, presenting a three-part program of Verdi duets, songs by Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov and Medtner, and Tchaikovsky opera, performed, by special permission, in the opulent theatres of the legendary Winter Palace, the Palace of the Yusopov family and the magnificent Peterhof. The program is fronted by Reneé Fleming herself as she takes the viewer on a journey through the musical locations and history of "the Venice of the North."
A New York Minute with Renée Fleming
25 July 2010
NYDailyNews.com | by Jane Ridley
It was a huge gamble when Manhattan's Renee Fleming, 51, arguably the world's most famous female opera singer, announced she was recording a rock collection called "Dark Hope."
The three-time Emmy-winning soprano and Metropolitan Opera House darling sexed up her image - check out those bangs on the album cover! - and dialed down her voice to a tenor for the departure from classical music.
It paid off. The critics are raving about the new album - which includes covers of bands ranging from Jefferson Airplane and Tears for Fears to Arcade Fire, the Mars Volta and Muse - and, perhaps more importantly, so are her teenage daughters.
Opera star Renée Fleming rocks out
2 July 2010
ABC 7 | Video
Watch Renée perform Death Cab For Cutie's "Soul Meets Body" on ABC TV special July 2
1 July 2010
Tune in to ABC TV on Friday, July 2 at 9PM EDT to watch Renée perform “Soul Meets Body” (look for Renée’s sister Rachelle on back-up vocals!) and “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” on America Celebrates July 4th at Ford’s Theatre. The event was taped in June at the Ford’s Theatre Society annual gala in Washington, D.C. and features performances by Lionel Richie, Kelly Clarkson, George Lopez and others.
Renée Fleming achieves first Billboard Top 200 debut and best first week sales with "surprising" (LA Times) new album "Dark Hope"
16 June 2010
Renée Fleming’s thrilling new album ‘Dark Hope’ (Decca) debuts at #151 today on the Billboard Top 200 chart, with the highest first-week sales of the superstar soprano’s storied career. Though the three-time Grammy winner has topped Billboard’s Classical chart five times, this marks her first appearance in the Top 200. ‘Dark Hope,’ which finds Fleming exploring a parallel universe via songs by Arcade Fire, Band of Horses, Leonard Cohen, Death Cab for Cutie, Jefferson Airplane, The Mars Volta, Muse and others, also opens at #3 on Billboard’s Heatseeker chart.
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Dark Hope Trailer
Renée Fleming's new album Dark Hope, which the opera star describes as a "visit to a new, parallel universe," will be released by Decca this spring.
Renée Fleming - Endlessly
Watch the music video for “Endlessly”, featuring actor Matthew Modine and director Abel Ferrara (“Bad Lieutenant”), as well as Renée’s daughters, Amelia and Sage, and her sister Rachelle. Directed by David Hausen. © 2010 Decca Label Group
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THE INNER VOICE
The Making of a singer
The Inner Voice traces Renée Fleming’s path to maturity and success as an artist, from her youth as the child of two singing teachers through her years at Julliard, from her struggles to establish her career to her international success. Her articulate and candid book is the most revelatory examination yet of a performing life, of the crucial roles played by a solid education and supportive mentors, of the importance of discipline and a well-established technique, of confronting the challenges of stress and self-doubt, of the myriad details that must be mastered in creating a vivid operatic character or interpreting a song, of the practical necessity of having a firm understanding of how business functions, and of learning to balance personal and professional fulfillment.
