Renee Fleming

Renee Fleming (born February 14, 1959) Grammy Award winning American soprano specializing in opera and Lieder. Fleming, full lyric soprano.Fleming sang coloratura, lyric and lighter spinto soprano repertoire. She has sung roles in Italian, German, French, Czech and Russian languages besides his native English. In addition, she is fluent in 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 “La Traviata” by Verdi, the title role in Rusalka Dvorak, the title role in Manon by Massenet, the main role in “Thais” Massenet, as well as Marschallin in Richard Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier and the title heroine Arabella.Richard Tucker Award Winner, she performs regularly in opera houses and concert halls. In 2008 Renee Fleming tickets was awarded the Swedish Polar Prize for her services to music. Renowned conductor Sir George Solti, Fleming said: “In my long life, I met two sopranos, perhaps, this quality of singing, another Renata Tebaldi. Fleming first began performing professionally at concerts and with small opera companies at the same time graduate Juilliard. She often sang in a concert by Musica Viva series of authors “New York Unitary Church All Souls in 1980. In 1984, she sang nine songs of Hugo Wolf in the world premiere of Eliot Feld to leave, she again performed in 1987 and 1989 years in the Joyce Theater.In 1986, she performed her first major operatic role, Konstanze in Die Entführung AUS DEM Serail, in Salzburg Landestheater. Two years later, she portrayed Thalie, Clarine and La Folie in Jean-Philippe Rameau’s Platée with Piccolo Teatro Dell Opera. Renee Fleming’s event first major break came in 1988 when she won the Metropolitan Opera Auditions at the age of 29 years. In the same year she sang the Countess in Le nozze di Figaro in her debut with the Houston Grand Opera. She reprised the role in next year’s debut in Spoleto Festival. Also in 1989, Fleming made her debut with the New York City Opera as Mimi in “La Boheme” and her debut with the Royal Opera at Covent Garden as Dirk Médée Cherubini’s. She also was awarded a Richard Tucker Career Grant and won the George London competition.