Renee Fleming News

March 17, 2010 - Jazz pianist Brad Mehldau likes crossing musical borders. He's improvised a song by the Beatles and Joni Mitchell.

Jazz pianist Brad Mehldau likes crossing borders. He's improvised to Beatles songs and Joni Mitchell tunes, he's written art songs for operatic soprano Renee Fleming , and now, with his new double album Highway Rider , he's created a large-scale work for chamber orchestra and jazz ensemble.

Singer-songwriter Peter Gabriel and soprano Renee Fleming are just a few of the stars who are releasing whole albums of cover songs.

Christoph Eschenbach is starting his National Symphony Orchestra tenure with a bit of a bang. His inaugural season bears a personal stamp, and a good balance of repertory standards (all of Beethoven's piano concertos) and new works (a world premiere by Peter Lieberson for the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's inauguration). It also offers big-name soloists who have long-standing professional relationships with the conductor -- Renee Fleming, Lang Lang, Christian Tetzlaff, Gil Shaham, Radu Lupu -- and who offered personal statements, for the brochure, about how much they love him. It's a nice touch.

Joshua Bell is a rock star. If his name sounds familiar, it's probably because this violin virtuoso - who famously got his start as a 14-year-old soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Riccardo Muti - has shared the stage with Sting and the big screen with Meryl Streep.

Renee Fleming in "La Traviata": the soprano is extending her range from Verdi to Death Cab for Cutie.

According to a report in the New York times, renowned opera singer Renee Fleming will release a new CD entitled 'Dark Hope' in the Spring of 2010.

Friends of Vienna offer an afternoon of Viennese vocal rarities, while the Buffalo Chamber Players plan a British Invasion Sioprano Emily Tworek Helenbrook sings at Unity Church on Sunday, February 21.

Renee Fleming in the title role of "Thais." Photograph by: Brigitte Lacombe, Metropolitan opera Get ready for some mouth-watering live classical music and visits by some big stars in 2010.

Verdi's Simon Boccanegra showed worldwide live and in HD from the Met Saturday morning, with veteran host Renee Fleming adding her dazzling star power.

Celebrated soprano Renee Fleming won Grammy numero tres on Sunday night, for classical vocal performance, for her album "Verismo Arias." And now you can see her at Harvard for free.

Eastman School of Music alumni had a winning night at the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards on Sunday.

The Mississippi debut of Metropolitan Opera star Renee Fleming has created a lot of buzz in the Deep South.

Do It Today: Renee Fleming at the opera, a jazzy Cinderella , burlesque at the Palladium, and Fulfilling the Dream: MLK to Obama January 26, 2010 at 12:00 am by Franki Weddington Grammy-winning American soprano Renee Fleming , known as "the people's diva," sings classical arias with a few unexpected twists, accompanied by the Opera Tampa Orchestra.

Opera star Renee Fleming's Jackson concert Friday is like a visit from royalty. 'For Mississippi Opera, it would be like bringing in the queen,' said Elizabeth Buyan, Mississippi Opera executive director of classical music's premiere soprano.

Kate McGarrigle, who died Monday, performs a 2004 concert as a tribute to Emmylou Harris, with help from her sister Anna McGarrigle and her son Rufus Wainwright.

This week our Classical reviewer Geoff Adams listens to Renee Fleming's Verismo and Daniel Hope's Baroque Journey.

IT'S curtain-up for a year-long season of opera, ballet and Shakespearean drama from Madrid and London - in Plymouth.

A SEASON of films of classical performances for cinema-goers in Edinburgh has been announced, kicking off with an exclusive performance of La Traviata, Verdi's best-loved opera from London's Royal Opera House.

WHEN it comes to the future of classical music in America, the most significant and promising concerts of 2009 were the inaugural programs of the new music directors at major orchestras on opposite coasts.