Renee Fleming is a well-known soprano and opera singer who grew up in New York City after growing up in Indiana, Pennsylvania. Fleming is known for her rich vocal texture and strong lyric soprano voice. She has performed in a variety of musical styles, including jazz, chanson, and indie rock.
In addition, she joined the international women’s musical fraternity “Sigma Alpha Iota” in 1993. She has been a host for several radio programs, including Metropolitan Opera Live. More than ten of Fleming’s CDs have been released, one of which also includes a number of Björk songs.
Renee performed in jazz bars to help cover her tuition while she was a student at the Juilliard School. The opera singer began performing in small local concerts with small opera companies in the 1980s after graduating. At the age of 29, she rose to fame after winning the Metropolitan Opera auditions.
How old is Renée Fleming?
Currently, Renee Fleming is 64 years old, born on February 14, 1959. Renée Fleming is 5 feet 6 inches tall. She weighs 64 kg. Renée Fleming grew up in Rochester, New York, after being born in Pennsylvania. Since both of her parents were voice teachers, music played a role in her childhood.
She later attended the Juilliard School, earned degrees from the Eastman School of Music and the State University of New York at Potsdam, and was a Fulbright Scholar to study abroad in Germany. Early honors include the George London Award, the Richard Tucker Award, and the Metropolitan Opera National Auditions in 1988.
Renée Fleming Career
While a graduate student at Juilliard, Fleming made his professional debut in small opera companies and shows. Throughout the 1980s, she frequently participated in the Musica Viva concert series presented by the New York Unitarian Church of All Souls.
In the world premiere of Eliot Feld’s ballet Adieu in 1984, she performed nine songs by Hugo Wolf; she did it again in 1987 and 1989 at the Joyce Theater. She played Konstanze in Die Einfühlung Aus dem Seraile, her first major operatic role, at the Salzburger Landestheater in 1986.
She played in Platée by Jean-Philippe Rameau with the Piccolo Teatro dell’Opera two years later in the roles of Thalie, Clarine and La Folie. She was again recognized by the Richard Tucker Music Foundation in 1990, but this time she received the prestigious Richard Tucker Award.
She also performed in a performance of Eliot Feld’s The Marriage for American Ballet Theater’s 50th anniversary, and she returned to New York City Opera to sing the Countess in The Marriage of Figaro and Micala in Bizet’s Carmen.
Privacy
Fleming had two marriages. In 1989, Fleming married actor Rick Ross, with whom she had two daughters. In 2000, the couple divorced. Fleming married tax lawyer Tim Jessell on September 3, 2011, after Ann Patchett met them on a blind date.