芮妮·弗莱明

早期生活及教育

弗莱明的父母都是音乐老师。她出生于美国宾夕法尼亚州的印地安纳郡 并在纽约州的罗切斯特长大。她有一位兄弟及一个姊妹，都从事音乐学习。

弗莱明在年轻时喜爱流行音乐，并且十分钦佩琼尼·米歇尔的才华。除标准保留歌剧节目外，她还表演新音乐、百老汇歌舞剧以及其它流行风格音乐。

弗莱明曾在纽约州立大学Potsdam分校的克瑞音乐学院（Crane School of Music）就学。在该校学习时，她参加了一个校外的名为Alger's的爵士乐三重奏乐队进行演唱表演。该乐队的萨克斯手Illinois Jacquet邀请她一起进行他的大乐队（Big band）之旅，但是弗莱明选择前往伊士曼音乐学院继续她的研究生学习，并成为声乐老师Jan DeGaetani的学生。之后她又前往茱莉亚学院继续深造。在朱利亚德学院学习期间，她出演了一系列歌剧角色，如贾科莫·普契尼歌剧《波希米亚人》中的Musetta以及Menotti的《Tamu-Tamu》里的妻子。

职业生涯

2007年到中国上海举办独唱音乐会。

2018年电影《美声唱法》中为茱莉安·摩尔饰演的罗克珊·科斯（Roxane Coss）唱歌时配音。

个人生活

弗莱明与演员Rick Ross结婚并育有两个女儿。两人于1998年离婚。

Renée Lynn Fleming (born February 14, 1959) is an American soprano and actress, known for performances in opera, concerts, recordings, theater, film, and at major public occasions. A recipient of the National Medal of Arts, Fleming has been nominated for 18 Grammy Awards and has won five times. In December 2023, she was one of five recipients of the Kennedy Center Honors. Other notable honors have included the Crystal Award from the World Economic Forum in Davos, the Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur from the French government, Germany's Cross of the Order of Merit, Sweden's Polar Music Prize and honorary membership in England's Royal Academy of Music. Unusual among artists whose careers began in opera, Fleming has achieved name recognition beyond the classical music world.

Fleming has a full lyric soprano voice. She has performed coloratura, lyric, and lighter spinto soprano operatic roles in Italian, German, French, Czech, and Russian, aside from her native English. A significant portion of her career has been the performance of new music, including world premieres of operas, concert pieces, and songs composed for her by André Previn, Caroline Shaw, Kevin Puts, Anders Hillborg, Nico Muhly, Henri Dutilleux, Brad Mehldau, and Wayne Shorter. In 2008, Fleming became the first woman in the 125-year history of the Metropolitan Opera (the Met) to solo headline a season opening night gala. Conductor Sir Georg Solti said of Fleming: "In my long life, I have met maybe two sopranos with this quality of singing."

Early life and education

Fleming was born on February 14, 1959, in Indiana, Pennsylvania, the daughter of two music teachers. She has great-grandparents who were born in Prague and later emigrated to the US. She grew up in Churchville, New York and attended Churchville-Chili High School.

Career

1980s

Fleming began performing professionally in smaller concerts and with small opera companies while still a graduate student at Juilliard. She sang frequently in the Musica Viva concert series sponsored by the New York Unitarian Church of All Souls during the 1980s.……

1990s

In 1990 she was once again honored by the Richard Tucker Music Foundation but this time with the highly coveted Richard Tucker Award.……

Personal life

Fleming has been married twice. Fleming married actor Rick Ross in 1989, and the couple had two daughters. The couple divorced in 2000. On September 3, 2011, Fleming married tax lawyer Tim Jessell, whom she met on a blind date set up by author Ann Patchett.

Non-classical recordings

Fleming appeared as a special guest vocalist on Joe Jackson's 1994 album Night Music on the song "Lullaby". Fleming has released a number of recordings on the Decca label.……

TV, radio, film, and digital platforms

2000s

Fleming appeared on the children's show Sesame Street singing a lively rendition of "Caro nome" from Rigoletto, replacing the traditional Italian text with lyrics intended to aid children learning to count. She performed several times on Garrison Keillor's public radio program A Prairie Home Companion.

2011–2015

Fleming appears on the soundtrack of the 2011 Steven Spielberg animated film The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn as the singing voice of opera diva Bianca Castafiore, singing Juliette's waltz from Gounod's Romeo et Juliette.……

Music and health

Fleming has been an advocate for the study of the relationship between music and health, as well as the utility of music in neuroscience research.

In 2016, Fleming was appointed Artistic Advisor for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.……

Philanthropy and advocacy

On July 13, 2004, Fleming joined Elton John on stage at Radio City Music Hall to perform Your Song, in the finale of his benefit concert for Juilliard and the Royal Academy of Music.

Fleming has supported and served on the board of directors of Sing For Hope since the organization's inception in 2006.……