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b. 1959 American soprano She completed her formal study at the Juilliard School and in Europe on a Fulbright scholarship with Arleen Augér and Elisabeth Schwarzkopf. She made her Metropolitan Opera debut in 1991 as the Countess (Mozart’s Figaro), which, along with the Marschallin (Strauss’s Rosenkavalier) has become one of her best-known roles. She created the role of Blanche DuBois ...

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b. 1959, American Fleming has taken a position in the American public consciousness similar to that of Beverley Sills in the twentieth century – a household name even to many people who are unfamiliar with opera as an art form. Much-loved for her radiant tone and expansive on-stage presence, the full lyric soprano’s repertoire encompasses Richard Strauss, Mozart ...

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He was widely known as a Lieder singer, having extensively recorded Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms and Wolf songs. Introduction | Contemporary | Classical Personalities | Renée Fleming | Contemporary | Classical ...

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(Tristan und Isolde) and Leonore (Fidelio). Her final operatic performance was in Dido and Aeneas at London’s Mermaid Theatre in 1953. Introduction | Modern Era | Opera Personalities | Renée Fleming | Modern Era | Opera Houses & Companies | The Birth of the Metropolitan Opera | Turn of the Century | Opera ...

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, operatic music became popularized on a grand scale. Opera continues to enter the popular arena, notably at official and sporting events: in 2014, the much-loved soprano Renée Fleming was the first opera singer to perform the American national anthem at the Super Bowl. A Short History | Modern Era | Opera Styles & Forms | Modern Era | ...

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but more recently both Jessye Norman and Kathleen Battle (b. 1948) have been outstandingly successful. Through the last decade a new generation of American sopranos has risen to prominence: Renée Fleming (b. 1959) and Dawn Upshaw (b. 1960) have impressed across a broad repertory. Unusually for singers of such stature, both have proved willing interpreters of contemporary music. By contrast ...