A American soprano Renée Fleming (born February 14, 1959) is a leading opera singer.

Fleming was natural within Indiana, Pennsylvania, and grew up within Rochester, New York. Two her parents were voice teachers.

She exposed music education at a Crane School of Music at the State University of New York at Potsdam. When at SUNY-Potsdam, she took higher singing by owning the jazz trio in an off-campus bar. A jazz saxophonist Illinois Jacquet invited her on tour by using his big band, but she chose instead to prove my point by using postgraduate studies at a Eastman School of Music and Juilliard.

Fleming's number 1 major break come around 1988 once she sang a Countess in The Marriage of Figaro at the Houston Grand Opera. Within 1989, she mass produced debuts sustaining a New York City Opera and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Inside 1991, she mass produced her Metropolitan Opera debut. Within 1997, Fleming sang her number one Manon at a Opéra Bastille to glowing reviews.

As a small fry, Fleming enjoyed popular music & admired a talent of Joni Mitchell and others. Additionally to the standard operatic repertoire, she performs new music, Broadway indicate tunes, & more popular genres. Fleming sang in the globe première of John Corigliano's A Ghosts of Versailles sustaining a 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.

Popular music recordings
Fleming has too freed the total of popular music recordings on the Polygram and Decca labels. She likewise appears on the soundtrack of the 2003 film The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.

Partial discography
A Beautiful Voice Polygram 1998 Star Crossed Lovers Polygram 1999 Renée Fleming Decca 2001 Bel Canto Universal Classics 2002 Under a Stars Decca 2003 By Asking Decca 2003 Requiem Philips 2004 Haunted Heart Decca 2005

External References
[http://www.renee-fleming.com/ Renée Fleming's website] [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=ADFEAEE4781ED947A57520EFB71670E1FA5CDE2DFE62D9BA5007656392940454880C71ED59E695C8AEF36AB679AFFA62A3500CDBC0EB5EECBC1B&uid=MIW030505091938&sql=11:bloibkh96akz~T0/ All Music Guide Popular Music entry for Renée Fleming] [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=ADFEAEE4781ED947A57520EFB71670E1FA5CDE2DFE62D9BA5007656392940454880C71ED59E695C8AEF36AB679AFFA62A3500AD5C0EE5FECBC1B&sql=41:23812/ All Music Guide Classical Music entry for Renée Fleming] [http://rerenee.blogspot.com/ Re Renee: news and reviews in blog format]

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