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Renée Fleming (born February 14, 1959) is an American opera singer and soprano whose repertoire encompasses Richard Strauss, Mozart, Handel, bel canto, lieder, French opera and chansons, jazz and indie rock.〔Ronni Reich, ("New roles, and teenage daughters, keep soprano Renee Fleming on a learning curve" ), ''The Star-Ledger'' (January 22, 2012)〕 Fleming has a full lyric soprano voice.〔Tommasini, Anthony: ("For a Wary Soprano, Slow and Steady Wins the Race" ), ''The New York Times'', September 14, 1997〕 She has performed coloratura, lyric, and lighter spinto soprano operatic roles in Italian, German, French, Czech, and Russian, aside from her native English. She also speaks fluent German and French, along with limited Italian. Her signature roles include Countess Almaviva in Mozart's ''Le nozze di Figaro'', Desdemona in Verdi's ''Otello'', Violetta in Verdi's ''La traviata'', the title role in Dvořák's ''Rusalka'', the title role in Massenet's ''Manon'', the title role in Massenet's ''Thaïs'', the title role in Richard Strauss's ''Arabella'', the Marschallin in ''Der Rosenkavalier'', and the Countess in ''Capriccio''. A National Medal of Arts and Richard Tucker Award winner, she regularly performs in opera houses and concert halls worldwide. In 2008 she was awarded the Swedish Polar Music Prize for her services in music. She serves as Creative Consultant for the Lyric Opera of Chicago. Conductor Sir Georg Solti said of Fleming, "In my long life, I have met maybe two sopranos with this quality of singing; the other was Renata Tebaldi."〔 ==Early life and education== A daughter of two music teachers, Fleming was born on February 14, 1959, in Indiana, Pennsylvania, and grew up in Rochester, New York. She has great-grandparents who were born in Prague and later emigrated to the US.〔See also Renée Fleming, ''The Inner Voice: the Making of a Singer.'' Paperback ed. New York: Penguin Group, 2004.〕 Fleming attended Churchville-Chili High School. She studied with Patricia Misslin at the Crane School of Music at the State University of New York at Potsdam. While at SUNY Potsdam, she took up singing with a jazz trio in an off-campus bar called Alger's. The jazz saxophonist Illinois Jacquet invited her on tour with his big band, but she chose instead to continue with graduate studies at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York with voice teacher John Maloy. She won a Fulbright Scholarship, which enabled her to work in Europe with Arleen Augér and Elisabeth Schwarzkopf. This was followed by further studies at the Juilliard School, which she sang jazz gigs to pay for.〔Brady, James: ("In Step With: Renée Fleming" ) ''Parade Magazine'', November 7, 2004〕 While at Juilliard she sang in roles with the Juilliard Opera Center, appearing as Musetta in Puccini's ''La bohème'' and the Wife in Menotti's ''Tamu-Tamu'', among others.〔John Rockwell, ("Opera: Graziella Sciutti's ''Bohème'' at Juilliard" ) ''The New York Times'', December 11, 1983〕〔Will Crutchfield, ("Opera: Menotti Stages a Double Bill at Juilliard" ), ''The New York Times'', April 26, 1987〕 Her voice teacher at Juilliard was Beverley Peck Johnson. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Renée Fleming」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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