Green Integer Blog (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Antonio Ghislanzoni (libretto), based on a French scenario by Auguste Mariette, Giuseppe Verdi (composer) Aida / the production I saw was the Metropolitan Opera live HD, in encore on Thursday, November 12, 2009 One of the aspects of Aida that interviewer, singer Renée Fleming suggested several times in the intermissions of Verdi's great opera was that, despite the huge size of the cast, except...
mostly opera... (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Renée Fleming and Christoph Eschenbach in CopenhagenRenée Fleming with Orchestre de Paris conducted by Christoph Eschenbach. Copenhagen, May 11th, 2009. Program: Capriccio final scene and Bruckner´s 9th symphony. Extras: Zueinigung and Morgen (R. Strauss).Upon reading that at her recent London concert, Renée Fleming was criticized for singing approximately 20 minutes, I was...
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
"[With] Renée and me, there's no barrier … We can do anything with each other and we don't care. … One of the reviews said we seemed giddy in bed together, and we really were." (She's talking about playing Octavian to Fleming's Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier at the Met; the ex-boyfriend is conductor Edo de Waart.)...
Intermezzo (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
think of it as the encore she never gave:
Intermezzo (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Renee Fleming / RPO / Dutoit - Royal Festival Hall, 3 November 2009 This concert was billed as Renee Fleming with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, but the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra featuring Renee Fleming would have been more accurate. I expect...
Intermezzo (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Renee Fleming made her debut in the overpopulated celebrity fragrance market last year with La Voce, so super-exclusive it's only available from the Met shop, which now smells like a Boots counter as hordes of operagoers spritz themselves silly with...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
New recordings from Renée Fleming and Cecilia Bartoli are like graduate seminars dressed up as recitals.
New York Times (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
On Tuesday Renée Fleming and Susan Graham were reunited in “Der Rosenkavalier,” a revival of Nathaniel Merrill’s lavishly traditional production first introduced 40 years ago.
oboeinsight (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
I’m finally listening to the Renée Fleming CD, Verismo, that was sent to me (yes, for free; I’m supposed to acknowledge that here) to “review”. Everyone here knows I don’t actually review things; I don’t feel qualified and certainly don’t feel comfortable doing so. But I can tell you I’m enjoying the CD, and the [...]
The Classical Beat (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
Given the glossy press folders that usually accompany a Deutsche Grammophon opera-related release (viz. Danielle De Niese's Mozart Album and Renee Fleming's earnest "Verismo" album), I was mildly surprised that the label allowed one to be released with a minimum of hype. But "Puccini Rediscovered" is something of a lost child, not quite sure what it wants to be. Is it a showcase...
NewYorkology: A New York Travel Gui (Free subscription) | 09/03/2009
The Metropolitan Opera said today it will open its doors for three free Open Houses this season, including the final dress rehearsals for “Tosca,” “Les Contes d’Hoffmann” and “Armida.” The “Tosca” Open House will take place Sept. 17, four days before the opening night gala . It will star Karita Mattila in the new Luc Bondy staging of the Puccini...
Ionarts (Free subscription) | 08/05/2009
Verdi, La Traviata, A. Gheorghiu, R. Vargas, La Scala, L. Maazel(re-released on September 30, 2008)Arthaus Musik 101343This has been a time for new Violettas, with more productions and DVDs of La Traviata than we could possibly take in. We reviewed Elizabeth Futral at Washington National Opera, but in recent months there have also been Ailyn Pérez and Anna Netrebko in San Francisco, Reneé...
I'll think of something later (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
They’re savaging Rufus over on a certain site, without having heard a note of his new ‘pastiche of an opera’ Prima Donna . Well, I haven’t encountered it yet either, though I’m sure that if a case is to be made, that fine singing actress Janis Kelly (pictured above by Clive Barda in the Palace Theatre Manchester premiere) will make it. Anyway, Wainwright’s in good...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 07/07/2009
There was nothing cautious about Renée Fleming’s performance as Violetta in Verdi’s “Traviata” at the Royal Opera on Monday.
Opera Today (Free subscription) | 06/26/2009
Four years have passed since the most celebrated American soprano of recent times, Renée Fleming, graced the stage at Covent Garden, in Elijah Moshinsky’s classic production of Otello.
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