Renée Fleming Introduces Her 2012-2013 Carnegie Hall Perspectives Series
26 January 2012
Renée Fleming brings the full breadth of her artistic curiosity to Carnegie Hall's Perspectives residency in the 2012-2013 season.
Concerts will include a joint recital with mezzo-soprano Susan Graham, a semi-staged performance of André Previn's "A Streetcar Named Desire," the premiere of a new work by Anders Hillborg in a special concert with the New York Philharmonic under Alan Gilbert, and "Vienna: Window to Modernity," a tribute to the time and place where the European musical tradition gave way to the 20th century.
More information about Renée Fleming's Perspectives is available at http://www.carnegiehall.org/fleming
Lyric Opera goes to nine productions for upcoming season
17 January 2012
Chicago Tribune | by John von Rhein
Renée Fleming will star as Blanche DuBois in "A Streetcar Named Desire."
Chicago opera lovers impatient to learn what innovations Anthony Freud will put into place now that he is well and truly ensconced as general director of Lyric Opera of Chicago, will have to cool their heels.
The first Lyric season to fall entirely under the new general director’s planning won’t arrive until the 2015-16 season. Just about everything else in the way of repertory and casting for the coming three seasons will have been put together by his predecessor, William Mason, and Mason’s team.
Actually, since Freud inherited Lyric’s trusty music director, Andrew Davis; its creative consultant, soprano Renee Fleming; a committed staff and a financially vigilant board, everything was in place to keep the company on a steady course before Freud’s arrival in Chicago last year.
Renée Fleming Master Class
13 January 2012
The Song Continues...
Tuesday, Jan 17, 2012 | 7:30 PM
Zankel Hall
The young singers of The Song Continues … are in for a real treat—and so are you. Sit in as the incomparable Renée Fleming—a fearless advocate for the art of singing—helps young singers hone their vocal skills.
Renée and Lyric Opera to honor Bill Mason in Chicago
6 January 2012
Chicago Tribune | by John von Rhein
On Saturday night, Lyric Opera of Chicago will pay tribute to its former general director, William Mason, with a "subscriber appreciation concert" starring soprano Renee Fleming (Lyric's creative consultant) and baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky.
Four Last Songs broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 from Royal Festival Hall
14 December 2011
Soprano Renée Fleming joins Christoph Eschenbach and the London Philharmonic Orchestra in performing Strauss's Four Last Songs at London's Royal Festival Hall on Wednesday.
Renée Fleming has a particular affinity for Four Last Songs, which she has lived with throughout her career. "So comforting and so beautiful," she says, "every time I sing it, my breathing slows down. I feel as if I'm in an altered state at the end. I never tire of it - ever." Surrounding it are performances by the LPO of two of the greatest representatives of German romanticism: Wagner's cascading overture to Tannhäuser, and Beethoven's Seventh Symphony.
Renée performs aria in new Spielberg film
13 December 2011
She finally broke glass! In Steven Spielberg's latest film, The Adventures of Tintin, Renée Fleming performs Gounod's "Ah, je veux vivre" as Bianca Castafiore, the comical Italian opera diva, for one of the film's climactic moments. Based on the series of books by Hergé, the film is produced by Steven Spielberg, Peter Jackson and Kathleen Kennedy. An all-star cast includes Jamie Bell as Tintin, the young reporter whose relentless pursuit of a good story thrusts him into a world of high adventure, and Daniel Craig as the nefarious Red Rackham.
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Renée Fleming - Endlessly
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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.
