Renée Fleming is one of the most renowned singers of our time, and performs regularly at the world’s great opera houses and concert halls. The recipient of five Grammy awards and the US National Medal of Arts, she has had the honour of performing at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert, the Diamond Jubilee Concert for Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace and in the televised concert in front of the Brandenburg Gate to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
In November 2022 Renée Fleming performed in the world premiere of Kevin Puts’s The Hours, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name by Michael Cunningham, at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Other recent appearances include a tour with concerts in Milan, Paris, and at the Vienna Musikverein and New York’s Carnegie Hall.
As an exclusive artist for the Decca label, Renée Fleming most recently released the album Greatest Moments at the Met, in January 2023. Her song album Voice of Nature: The Anthropocene, in which she explores the relationship of Romantic composers to nature through song, with Yannick Nézet-Séguin as her pianist, won a Grammy Award in 2023 in the category ‘Best Classical Solo Vocal Album’.
In recent years, Renée Fleming has become a leading advocate for research at the intersection of arts, health and neuroscience. As Artistic Advisor to the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, she launched the Kennedy Center’s first ongoing collaboration with the National Institutes of Health. She has presented her programme Music and the Mind in more than fifty cities around the world, and Music and Mind LIVE, the weekly internet show that she created, has amassed nearly 700,000 views, from more than seventy countries.
Renée Fleming directs the SongStudio at Carnegie Hall, is Co-Director of the Aspen Opera Theater and VocalARTS at the Aspen Music Festival, and Advisor for Special Projects at the Los Angeles Opera.
She holds honorary doctorates from several high-ranking universities such as Harvard University, Duke University, the Juilliard School, the University of Pennsylvania, Northwestern and Carnegie Mellon University. She is the winner of a Polar Music Prize, and a recipient of the Fulbright Lifetime Achievement Medal, the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, and the Ordre national de la Légion d’honneur. In 2023 she received the Crystal Award from the World Economic Forum.
