Renée Fleming

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Renée Fleming, 2009
Renée Fleming at a concert in the Munich Philharmonic in Gasteig, 2008

Renée Fleming (born February 14, 1959 in Indiana , Pennsylvania ) is an American soprano and one of the world's leading opera singers .

Life

Renée Fleming, whose parents worked as a singing teacher, spent her childhood in Rochester , New York. She received her first vocal training at the Crane School of Music at the State University of New York (SUNY) in Potsdam (New York) . a. with the singing teacher Patricia Misslin . During her studies at SUNY, she sang with a jazz trio in a bar called Alger's. From 1983 to 1987 she continued her studies at the Eastman School of Music and at the renowned Juilliard School in New York City .

She made her debut in 1986 as Konstanze in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail at the Salzburg State Theater . Renée Fleming's breakthrough came in 1988 as Countess in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro at the Houston Grand Opera . In the first phase of her career she won important prizes: the Metropolitan Opera National Auditions, the Richard Tucker Award, the George London Prize, the Grand Prix at the International Singing Competition in Belgium and a Fulbright scholarship .

In the 1993/94 season she made her role debuts as Desdemona in Verdi's Otello and as Ellen Orford in Britten's Peter Grimes at the Metropolitan Opera . In the summer of 1994 she made her debut as Countess in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro at the Glyndebourne Festival .

Fleming has appeared at the Vienna State Opera , the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, the La Scala in Milan , the Opéra Bastille in Paris and the New York Metropolitan Opera . By 2008 alone she had sung 51 different roles.

The artist directory Musical America listed the soprano as Vocalist of the Year in 1997 , and in 1996 she received the Solti Prize of the French Académie du Disque Lyrique. Fleming received a Grammy Award in the Best Classical Vocal Performance category for the album The Beautiful Voice - Works of Charpentier, Gounod, Massenet & Flotow (1998) and for the album Bel canto - Bellini, Donizetti & Rossini (2002). In 2008 Fleming was awarded the Polar Music Prize .

In the film adaptation of The Lord of the Rings Renée Fleming took over some solo parts composed by Howard Shore , so u. a. the piece Twilight and Shadow .

In 2010 she received the Grammy Award for the best classical vocal performance, in 2012 the Echo Klassik in the category Singer of the Year with her album Ravel, Messiaen, Dutilleux: Poèmes published by Decca / Universal. In 2013 she was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

In 2018 she sang Irish traditional Danny Boy at the Washington National Cathedral at the memorial service for John McCain .

Until 1998, Fleming was married to actor Rick Ross, with whom she has two daughters. She has been living in her second marriage to lawyer Tim Jessel since 2011.

Discography

Recitals

Operas

Oratorios

Others

DVDs

literature

Web links

Commons : Renée Fleming  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ klassikakzente.de Status: December 3, 2008
  2. ↑ pro: log No. 120 (PDF), June 2008, p. 2 (magazine of the Vienna State Opera)
  3. ↑ Homepage Echo Klassik ( Memento of the original from July 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.echoklassik.de
  4. ↑ washingtonpost.com
personal data
SURNAME Fleming, Renee
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American soprano
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Indiana, Indiana County , Pennsylvania , United States