Renée Fleming in Conversation
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- čas přidán 24. 04. 2017
- One of the most beloved and celebrated musical ambassadors of our time, soprano Renée Fleming captivates audiences with her sumptuous voice, consummate artistry and compelling stage presence. At a White House ceremony in 2013, the president awarded her the National Medal of Arts, America's highest honor for an individual artist. Known as "the people's diva" and winner of the 2013 Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Solo, Fleming continues to grace the world's greatest opera stages and concert halls, now extending her reach to include other musical forms and media.
View the program: events.operaamerica.org/FlemingProgram2017
I absolutely love Renee. She is everything; she has a voice better than the angels, she is a great actress, she is smart as anyone could be, she is beautiful and she has a lovely laugh. She is a decent human being and doesn't act like a prima donna as some do. She wants her audiences to enjoy themselves. I have never heard her in person and would give my arm to, but I am now an old lady, almost 90 and my trips to NY are over. I've loved opera all my life and heard some great artists but never Renee. I even like the way she uses her hands. She is the greatest.
Eugene Onegin with her and Dnitri Horostovsky is still my favorite of hers!
I love Reneé Fleming.
Renee is wonderfull......
Love her.
While I don't agree with everything, to watch and to listen Renee Fleming's are enjoyable. - Cheers, Heinz
Terfel and DiDonato regularly sing new music...and beautifully.
Interesting that the interviewer claims all the major artists create new roles? Hvorostovsky, Kaufmann, Netrebko, Terfel, Didonato, Gheorghiu - have they even done 5 contemporary roles or even song cycles between them? Fleming is the only top calibre artist that has consistently done a lot of new music.
What do you think of her latest album Distant light? I think it´s rather nice and sort of Nordic in a way. One really sences there are more to this lady than meets the I😉
As a British observer of American legal and constitutional process, I take to heart what Fleming said at circa 37m 30s regarding Justices Ginsburg, Kennedy and Scalia. However, I write this on 7th January 202, just after protesters forced Congress to suspend important business....
Remember when Renée invented intelligence?
I love Renee but what are these "unsual" roles she sang? She had an extremely broad repertoire in terms of styles and idioms, she obviously is a genius musician, but outside of the american operas virtually all of her repertoire was by that time standard repertoire with a history of famous interpreters and recordings. Similarly she says "not many people wanted to do" the countess. I don't where she was but Figaro was and always has been one of the most performed standard rep operas and while it served as a breakthrough she hardly "owned" the Countess. There were TONS of famous interpreters of the role singing it concurrently at all the same theaters.
...and also interpreters (besides astronomers)!
Communication breakdown, it's always the same. "Birthed" . . . as to what's the difference between now and a 100 years ago. I think abundance/consumerism is the difference. Because the difference 'before' that 100 year period was the stone temple pilots and availability to perform.
I watched a "Live: In HD" once when I think they showed Leontyne Price entering and take a seat near the pit. A rather large person with BIG hair . . . and anyone seated behind her be damned.
Kind of like Kathleen Battle 'demanding' better accommodations for special her and THEN later bringing a 'brother-love traveling salvation show' to the house.
Andre Newcomb Please don't berate Diva Kathleen Battle. She's actually a very good person.
@@andrenewcomb3708 Are you replying to yourself or you just don't like black singers ?