Renée Fleming

Advisor, Special Projects at LA Opera

Renée Fleming is one of the most highly-acclaimed singers of their time, performing on the stages of the world’s greatest opera houses and concert halls.

In 2013, President Obama awarded her the National Medal of Arts. Winner of four Grammy Awards, she has sung for momentous occasions from the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony to the Diamond Jubilee Concert for Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace. She earned a Tony Award nomination for her performance in the 2018 Broadway production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel. Her new album Renée Fleming: Broadway was released in September 2018 by Decca. She is heard on the soundtracks of the 2018 Best Picture Oscar winner The Shape of Water and of Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, and she provided Julianne Moore’s singing voice for the film Bel Canto, released in the fall of 2018. As Artistic Advisor to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Renée Fleming spearheads a collaboration with the National Institutes of Health focused on music, health, and neuroscience. Among her awards are Germany’s Cross of the Order of Merit, France’s Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur, and Honorary Membership in the Royal Academy of Music.

In 2022, she will create the role of Clarissa in the world premiere of The Hours by Kevin Puts.

Timeline

  • Advisor, Special Projects

    Current role