Renée Fleming

Soprano

Renée Fleming

Fleming's first major break came in 1988 when she sang the Countess in The Marriage of Figaro at the Houston Grand Opera. In 1989, she made debuts with the New York City Opera and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. In 1991, she made her Metropolitan Opera debut. In 1997, Fleming sang her first Manon at the Opéra Bastille to glowing reviews.

As a youngster, Fleming enjoyed popular music and admired the talent of Joni Mitchell and others. In addition to the standard operatic repertoire, she performs new music, Broadway show tunes, and other popular genres.

Fleming sang in the world première of John Corigliano's The Ghosts of Versailles with the Metropolitan Opera, in the Lyric Opera of Chicago's first performances of Floyd's Susannah, and as Blanche in the world première of André Previn's A Streetcar Named Desire, with the San Francisco Opera.

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Angels - Christmas with The Great Sopranos

Angels - Christmas with The Great Sopranos


Adam:

O Holy Night

Leontyne Price (soprano)

Wiener Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan

Bach, J S:

Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (from Cantata BWV147)

Arr. Chris Hazell

Renée Fleming (soprano)

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Andreas Delfs

Brahms:

Wiegenlied, Op. 49 No. 4 (Lullaby)

Angela Gheorghiu (soprano)

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Ion Marin

Fauré:

Requiem: Pie Jesu

Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano)

Symphonique de Montréal, Charles Dutoit

Grüber, F:

Silent Night

Renata Tebaldi & George Thalben-Ball

Handel:

Messiah: I know that my Redeemer liveth

Sylvia McNair (soprano)

Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chorus, The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields

Let the bright seraphim (from Samson)

Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano) & Crispian Steele-Perkins

, St. Paul's Cathedral Choir & English Chamber Orchestra, Barry Rose

Mascagni:

Ave Maria (arranged from Intermezzo sinfonico from Cavalleria Rusticana)

Angela Gheorghiu (soprano)

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Ion Marin

Mendelssohn:

Hark! the herald angels sing

Leontyne Price (soprano)

Singverein Der Gesellschaft Der Musikfreunde, Wiener Grosstadtkinderchor & Wiener Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan

Mozart:

Laudate Dominum from Vesperae Solennes de Confessore, K339

Barbara Bonney (soprano)

The English Concert Choir & The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock

Exsultate, jubilate, K165 - Alleluia

Sylvia McNair (soprano)

English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner

Schubert:

Ave Maria, D839

Renée Fleming (soprano)

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Andreas Delfs

trad.:

Good King Wenceslas

Dame Joan Sutherland, Valda Aveling & Patricia Clarke

The Ambrosian Singers

It came upon the midnight clear

Dame Joan Sutherland (soprano)

New Philharmonia Orchestra, Richard Bonynge

Verdi:

Ave Maria (from Otello)

Mirella Freni (soprano)

Philharmonia Orchestra, Giuseppe Sinopoli

Wade:

O come, all ye faithful

Renata Tebaldi (soprano)

The Ambrosian Singers & New Philharmonia Orchestra, Anton Guadagno


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Decca - 4780337

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Strauss - Four Last Songs

Strauss - Four Last Songs


Strauss, R:

Four Last Songs

Ariadne auf Naxos: Wo war ich?

Ariadne auf Naxos: Ein schones war

Ariadne auf Naxos: Es gibt ein Reich

Verfuehrung Op. 33 No. 1

Freundliche Vision, Op. 48 No. 1

Winterweihe, Op. 48 No. 4

Zueignung, Op. 10 No. 1

Zweite Brautnacht! from Die Ägyptische Helena


Renee Fleming (soprano)

Münchner Philharmoniker, Christian Thielemann

The dream team: Renee Fleming and Christian Thielemann, today's foremost interpreters of Richard Strauss, in a brand new recording of the Four Last Songs, plus other arias and songs by R. Strauss.

Renee Fleming, the world's leading lyric soprano, records the exquisitely beautiful Four Last Songs by Richard Strauss in a brand new recording. Fleming recorded these songs once before, ten years ago before she had ever sung them live. Since then, these enduringly popular showcases for the soprano voice have become signature pieces for Fleming and a regular and much-loved part of her concert repertoire. With years of experience of live performances behind her, Fleming is ready now to revisit these works, bringing more insight, fresh interpretations and greater maturity.

She is conducted by Christian Thielemann, a renowned interpreter of Strauss. The disc also includes other Strauss scenes from his operas Ariadne auf Naxos and Die Agyptische Helena as well as Richard Strauss's songs Freundliche Vision, Verfuehrung, Winterweihe and Zueignung, several of which Fleming has sung live to critical acclaim.

“[Fleming's] voice is perfectly suited to [these 'magical late songs'] demands, less of range than of tender, expressive feeling…a must for more than merely Straussians” Anthony Holden, The Observer, 7th September 2008

“Renée Fleming's first recording of the Last Songs, made in 1996 (on RCA), was distinctly mixed. Here Christian Thielemann is a much more natural Straussian, powerful and luxuriant, and Fleming's voice has gained in distinctiveness and diction, to splendidly dramatic effect, often with a real 'float' at the top.” BBC Music Magazine, September 2008 ****

GGramophone Magazine

Editor's Choice - November 2008

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Decca - 4780647

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Strauss, R: Arabella

Strauss, R: Arabella


Renee Fleming & Morten Frank Larsen

Zurich Opera, Franz Welser-Möst

matchless performance from Renée Fleming, the leading Strauss soprano of our time. High Definition filming from the Zurich Opera in 2007.

“to be among the most powerful creative influences on opera in recent times” (Telegraph, London).

“…Fleming looks fabulous, knows and can deliver good German, and can sing this role at least as well as anyone on the planet at the moment. But it's a shame that all concerned did not wait for a genuinely new production to preserve. This run-through of an old staging... is fluent and energetic... but it is not an evening pregnant with dramatic insight. In the pit Welser-Möst is an efficient, unemotional guide to the score...” Gramophone Magazine, 2008 Awards Issue

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Format: NTSC

Decca - 0743263

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Strauss, R: Daphne

Strauss, R: Daphne


Renée Fleming (Daphne), Johann Botha (Apollos), Michael Schade (Leukippos), Kwanchul Youn (Peineios), Anna Larsson (Gaea), Eike Wilm Schulte (1st Shepherd), Cosmin Ifrim (2nd Shepherd), Gregory Reinhart (3rd Shepherd), Carsten Mittmoser (4th Shepherd), Julia Kleiter (1st Maid) & Twyla Robinson (2nd Maid)

Orchestra & Chorus of West Deutscher Rundfunk, Semyon Bychkov

'As Daphne, Fleming soared...' The Independent on Sunday, 21 March 2004

Decca - 4756926

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Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527

Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527


Bryn Terfel, Renee Fleming, Solveig Kringelborn & Hei-Kyung Hong

Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus, James Levine

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DG - 0734010

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Verdi: Otello

Verdi: Otello


Plácido Domingo, Renée Fleming, James Morris

The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, James Levine

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DG - 0730929

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Massenet: Manon

Massenet: Manon


Renée Fleming, Marcelo Álvarez, Jean-Luc Chaignaud, Alain Vernhes, Michel Sénéchal, Franck Ferrari, Jaël Azzaretti, Isabelle Cals, Delphine Haidan, Christophe Fel, Josep Miquel Ribot, Nigel Smith

Chorus & Orchestra of the Opéra National de Paris, Jesus Lopez-Cobos, stage direction by Gilbert Deflo

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TDK - DVOPMANON

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Renée Fleming - Bel Canto

Renée Fleming - Bel Canto


Bellini:

La sonnambula - Arias

Il Pirata - arias

Donizetti:

Maria Padilla: arias

Lucrezia Borgia: arias

Rossini:

Semiramide: arias

Armida: arias


Renée Fleming (soprano)

Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Orchestra of St Luke's, Patrick Summers

Decca - 4671012

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I Want Magic!

I Want Magic!

American Opera Arias


Barber:

He has come, he has come!

Gershwin:

Songs from Porgy and Bess

Herrmann:

I Have Dreamt

Menotti:

Monica's Waltz

Previn:

I want magic!

Stravinsky:

No word from Tom


Reneé Fleming

Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, James Levine

Decca - 4605672

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The Beautiful Voice

The Beautiful Voice


Canteloube:

Songs of the Auvergne: Baïlèro

Charpentier, G:

Depuis le jour (Louise, Act III)

Dvorak:

Songs My Mother Taught Me, Op. 55 No. 4

Gounod:

Jewel song

Massenet:

Gavotte

Rachmaninov:

Vocalise, Op. 34 No. 14


Reneé Fleming

English Chamber Orchestra, Jeffery Tate

Decca - 4588582

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