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Renée Fleming
soprano

    Honored with four Grammy® awards and the United States’ National Medal of Arts, Renée Fleming has sung for momentous occasions from the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony to the Diamond Jubilee Concert for Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace. In 2014 she became the first classical artist ever to sing the National Anthem at the Super Bowl.
    Fleming’s concert calendar this season includes appearances in Paris, Berlin, Vienna, London, Los Angeles, and Houston, as well as at Carnegie Hall. In March, she joined The Philadelphia Orchestra in a world premiere concert of The Hours, a new opera based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and award-winning film. She will appear in the fully staged premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in November. During the pandemic, her performances on digital platforms included streamed online concerts for the Metropolitan Opera, the Kennedy Center, Lyric Opera of Chicago, and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.
    Fleming has sung not only with Luciano Pavarotti and Andrea Bocelli, but also with Elton John, Paul Simon, Sting, Josh Groban, and Joan Baez. She has hosted a wide variety of television and radio broadcasts, and her voice is featured on the soundtracks of Best Picture Oscar winners The Shape of Water and The Lord of the Rings. She has recorded everything from complete operas and song recitals to indie rock and jazz. Her latest album is Voice of Nature: The Anthropocene. A collection of classical songs and world premieres, the album focuses on nature as both inspiration and casualty of humans. 
    In recent years, Fleming has become a leading advocate for research at the intersection of arts, health, and neuroscience. As Artistic Advisor to the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, she launched the first ongoing collaboration between America’s national cultural center and the National Institutes of Health. She has presented her program Music and the Mind in more than 50 cities around the world. In 2020, she launched Music and Mind LIVE, a weekly web show exploring the connections between arts, human health, and the brain—amassing nearly 700,000 views from 70 countries. 
    Advisor for Special Projects at LA Opera, Fleming also leads SongStudio at Carnegie Hall. She is Co-Director of the Aspen Opera Center and VocalArts at the Aspen Music Festival. She earned a Tony Award nomination for her performance in the 2018 Broadway production of Carousel. Her other awards include the Fulbright Lifetime Achievement Medal, Germany’s Cross of the Order of Merit, Sweden’s Polar Music Prize, and France’s Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur. Visit www.reneefleming.com to learn more.


Renée Fleming appears by arrangement with IMG Artists, www.imgartists.com. Ms. Fleming is an exclusive recording artist for Decca and Mercury Records (UK). Ms. Fleming’s jewelry is by Ann Ziff for Tamsen Z.