RENEE FLEMING

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RENEE FLEMING

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Renée Fleming (born February 14, 1959) is an accomplished American soprano specializing in opera and lieder. Fleming possesses an agile full lyric soprano voice endowed with ringing freedom and apparent ease near the extreme top of its range. Although lyrical in nature, Fleming's voice has a substantial amount of flexibility and power which allows her to sing a variety of roles from the coloratura, lyric, and lighter spinto soprano repertoires. Her linguistic proficiency, too, serves as an asset—she has sung roles in Italian, German, French, Czech, and Russian, aside from her native English; indeed, she speaks fluent 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 Verdi's La traviata, the title role in Dvořák's Rusalka, the title role in Massenet's Manon, the title role in Massenet's Thaïs, and the Marschallin in Richard Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier and Arabella.

A Richard Tucker Award winner, Fleming is generally considered one of the world's leading classical sopranos; she regularly performs in opera houses and concert halls worldwide. In 2008 she was awarded the Swedish Polar Prize for her services in music. Renowned conductor Sir George Solti said of Fleming, "In my long life, I have met maybe two sopranos with this quality of singing, the other was Renata Tebaldi."

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Fleming in April 2008



Fleming performs at We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial on January 18, 2009.