Renee Fleming News

On one level, Rene Fleming's eloquent recital at the Lyric Opera House Wednesday night was just that - a solo performance by a pulchritudinous and ever-engaging soprano, one of the biggest vocal stars on the world stage today.

Music began with vocals, and in great singers the roots of the orchestra can be heard.

The last time Renee Fleming sang at Baltimore's Lyric Opera House , in December 2007, she heard something that superstar sopranos typically don't encounter - a wailing alarm bell, set off accidentally backstage.

People dressed as space and time travelers arrive at London's Heathrow Airport on Thursday.

Two of the usual suspects - Jars of Clay and Renée Fleming - are among musicians with local ties who appear on the 2010 Grammy nominee lists released today.

Eleven people with ties to the Eastman School of Music have been nominated for a Grammy.

San Francisco Opera shows it's sold out, one-hour film of the Magic Flute today at Herbst Theater for free with reservations.

Former Czech President Vaclav Havel opened the 20th anniversary celebrations of the Velvet Revolution with a concert attended by celebrities.

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One of the world's most sought-after sopranos is coming to town to star in the concert gala launching the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra's 2008-09 season.

RICHARD STRAUSS 'S "Rosenkavalier," to be revived on Tuesday at the Metropolitan Opera , begins with one of the most vivid depictions of sexual ecstasy in music: an orchestral buildup reaching a climax in a brace of whooping French horns.

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Renee Fleming at the dress rehearsal on Friday. The Marschallin, a noblewoman of 18th-century Vienna, dominates "Der Rosenkavalier," the Strauss opera that begins a run at the Metropolitan Opera Tuesday.

When it comes to opening a season, opera's reigning soprano Renee Fleming is the go-to gal.

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Emma Matthews' debut CD has helped revive the fortunes of Australian classical music recording, reports Barney Zwartz.

There are divas, and then there's Renee Fleming. During her 25-year career, the opera soprano has accrued all the trappings and tributes of international prima donna-dom. Designers like John Galliano, Karl Lagerfeld and Oscar De La Renta have dressed her in glittering custom threads for her gala performances.

One of the most celebrated and prominent sopranos of the 21st century has arrived in the country.

Performing beside a dreamily lit stack of oak wine barrels last July, classical pianist Conrad Tao embodied the true spirit of Napa Valley's annual Festival del Sole: world-class music set among the North Bay's most picturesque locales.

Posters of Renee Fleming appear to be everywhere here. She has been singing Violetta in Verdi 's "Traviata" at the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, and the six-performance run, which ended on Monday night, was sold out.