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Renée Fleming

December 2023

  • Billy Crystal waves as he is applauded by Dionne Warwick

    ‘You’re only 75’: Billy Crystal receives Kennedy Center honor amid Biden age jokes

    Crystal lauded alongside Dionne Warwick, Barry Gibb, Queen Latifah and Renée Fleming at annual ceremony

December 2022

  • Renée Fleming with xxxxx in The Hours, by Kevin Puts, at the Metropolitan Opera, New York.

    The Woolf pack: Renée Fleming and Joyce DiDonato on turning The Hours into opera

    The Pulitzer-prize-winning, Mrs Dalloway-influenced novel about three generations of women, has finally hit the stage. Its stars tell us how they pulled it off

April 2022

  • Renée Fleming.

    Renée Fleming/LPO review – superstar soprano is unforgettable

    This ‘gala evening’ with Fleming was breathtakingly intimate, though the London Philharmonic, under Enrique Mazzola, deserved equal credit in this strange programme of Dvořák, Verdi and Strauss

April 2020

  • Renée Fleming sings Ave Maria during the Metropolitan Opera’s At-Home Gala.

    Lockdown culture
    The Metropolitan Opera’s At-Home Gala review – thrilling singing, live from the stars’ living-rooms

  • Big-name lineup … top row, Lawrence Brownlee, Aleksandra Kursak, Angel Blue; middle row, Jonas Kaufmann, Diana Damrau, Bryn Terfel; bottom row, Anna Netrebko, Michael Fabiano, Golda Schutz

    Lockdown culture
    New York Metropolitan Opera hosts starry lockdown gala

June 2019

  • Renée Fleming and Alex Jennings in The Light in The Piazza.

    The Light in the Piazza review – Fleming shines over feelgood musical

  • ‘Brave or crazy – I don’t know which I am’ … Fleming.

    Renée Fleming: 'Plácido Domingo was so frightening. I needed help to get off the stage'

April 2019

  • Jon Batiste and the 369th Experience marching band. Soundtrack of America opens The Shed with a five-night concert series celebrating the unrivaled impact of African American music on contemporary culture with performances by today’s most exciting emerging musicians. Conceived and directed by Turner Prize-winning artist and Oscar-winning filmmaker Steve McQueen, and developed with music visionaries and academic experts, Soundtrack traces a musical “family tree” of spirituals and blues, jazz and gospel, R&B, rock and roll, house, hip hop, and trap that has inspired a new generation of artists who continue to develop that legacy. The McCourt, The Shed, New York

    Hold on to your hard hats: New York's $475m Shed throws open its doors

    The escalators need fixing and there’s no bar – but the show must go on, as stars from Ben Whishaw to Steve McQueen open NYC’s first major new arts venue for decades

August 2017

  • Renée Fleming sings Strauss, with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sakari Oramo, during Prom 61 at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

    RSPO/Oramo/Chineke!/Edusei review – rounded, exquisite, played to perfection

    A stellar performance by Renée Fleming and the first appearance by the BAME Chineke! Orchestra made Proms 61 and 62 a privilege to attend

January 2017

  • Renee Fleming

    Hillborg: The Strand Settings, etc CD review – Renée Fleming is ravishing

December 2016

  • Boom … Alice Coote, left, and Sophie Bevan as Octavian and Sophie in Robert Carsen’s Der Rosenkavalier for Royal Opera.

    Der Rosenkavalier review – big guns and young lovers overcome stage obstacles

    Renée Fleming leads a fine cast including Alice Coote, Sophie Bevan and Matthew Rose in a production whose romantic comedy plays out against a distractingly over-the-top backdrop

April 2016

  • Renée Fleming with Hartmut Höll at the Barbican on Wednesday.

    Renée Fleming review – lightness and luminosity

    The soprano whose voice was once described as ‘double cream’ played to her strengths and was perfectly partnered by pianist Hartmut Höll

February 2016

  • Composer Anders Hillborg soprano Renée Fleming at the Barbican on Friday.

    BBCSO/Oramo/Fleming review – precision and exotic colour

    Vocal works by Holloway and Hillborg were beautifully performed by US soprano Renée Fleming and the BBCSO under Sakari Oramo

December 2015

  • In this Dec. 8, 2010 photo provided by the Metropolitan Opera, Sir Simon Rattle conducts the rehearsal of Debussy s "Pell as et M lisande" at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. (AP Photo/Metropolitan Opera, Ken Howard) NO SALES

    Best albums of 2015
    Andrew Clements' top 10 classical CDs of 2015

    The best of this year’s releases, from Simon Rattle conducting Lutosławski’s Piano Concerto to Steve Reich’s minimal masterpiece Music for 18 Musicians

September 2015

  • Renée Fleming

    Berg: Lyric Suite; Wellesz: Sonnets CD review - emotional directness and technical assurance

    A remarkable performance, with Fleming’s velvety vocal threading through the swirling strings, suiting the world of late Berg perfectly

May 2015

  • Diana Damrau La Traviata, Royal Opera House 2014

    Music blog
    The Royal Opera's La Traviata celebrates 150 performances – watch two clips with a classic cast

    To mark the 150th performance of Richard Eyre’s Royal Opera production on 18 May, here are two clips from a classic 2009 production, with Antonio Pappano conducting and Renée Fleming, Joseph Calleja and Thomas Hampson in the title roles

January 2014

  • renee fleming super bowl

    Renée Fleming: the Super Bowl's unlikely opera singing superstar

    Unlike pop divas preceding her, the soprano who will sing the national anthem is a varied and down-to-earth performer

July 2013

  • Capriccio – review

    Renée Fleming has been in better voice, but her characterisation is remarkable in a Strauss concert with many highlights, writes Tim Ashley

December 2012

  • Renée Fleming/Maciej Pikulski – review

    Renée Fleming and pianist Maciej Pikulski struck form in the second half in this new repertoire, writes Tim Ashley

July 2012

  • LSO/Gergiev/Fleming – review

    Renée Fleming is rapturous, and supremely poised and witty in Le Temps L'Horloge, while the subtlety of the orchestral writing brought out the best in Gergiev, writes Tim Ashley
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