独特的气质，兼具邻家女孩的可人以及时尚女性的高贵，抒情女高音弗莱明（Renée Fleming）1959年出生于美国宾州的一个音乐教师家庭。被视为当今最顶尖抒情女高音，其美声与美貌也令她成为各大歌剧院和音乐厅争相邀请的宠儿。被誉为“美国人最喜爱的女高音”，除了拥有极美妙的嗓音外，演唱范围也非常广泛。拿手的抒情女高音角色当然是看家本领，技巧困难的花腔咏叹调也难不倒她，近年来更增加许多戏剧女高音的演出，逐渐朝轻重型抒情女高音领域挺进。

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芮妮·弗莱明 (Renée Fleming，1959年2月14日－)，著名美籍女高音歌唱家，除了主唱歌剧外，偶也演唱爵士乐作品。她被认为是现时最顶尖的抒情女高音，而她的美声和美貌令她成为各大歌剧院和音乐厅争相邀请的歌剧唱家。

弗莱明的父母都是音乐老师。她出生于美国宾夕法尼亚州的印地安纳县 并在纽约州的罗切斯特长大。她有一位兄弟及一个姊妹，都从事音乐学习。

弗莱明在年轻时喜爱流行音乐，并且十分钦佩琼尼·米歇尔的才华。除标准保留歌剧节目外，她还表演新音乐、百老汇歌舞剧以及其它流行风格音乐。

弗莱明曾在纽约州立大学Potsdam分校的克瑞音乐学院（Crane School of Music）就学。在该校学习时，她参加了一个校外的名为Alger's的爵士乐三重奏乐队进行演唱表演。该乐队的萨克斯手Illinois Jacquet邀请她一起进行他的大乐队（Big band）之旅，但是弗莱明选择前往伊士曼音乐学院继续她的研究生学习，并成为声乐老师Jan DeGaetani的学生。之后她又前往朱利亚德学院继续深造。在朱利亚德学院学习期间，她出演了一系列歌剧角色，如贾科莫·普契尼的《波希米亚人》中的Musetta以及Menotti的《Tamu-Tamu》里的妻子。

在歌剧的艺术天空下，美国女高音弗莱明绝对是当今闪耀的巨星之一，被誉为“当今最华丽抒情的莫扎特女高音”，她优美动人的嗓音和得体优雅的扮相让无数音乐爱好者为之倾倒。过往十多年，她叱咤欧洲与北美各大歌剧院，好评如潮。1988年在同一周内，连续赢得纽约大都会歌剧院国家比赛和乔治·伦敦歌唱大赛两项金奖。1995年她与Decca唱片公司签约为专属艺人后，弗莱明的声望攀上巅峰，不仅「音乐美国」杂志推崇她为「美国最美丽的声音」，还获得索尔第纪念奖、留声机唱片大奖、两次葛莱美奖…诸多荣耀。

芮妮·弗莱明是目前世界歌剧舞台上如日中天的人物。这位出生于美国的优秀抒情女高音拥有一副可塑性极强的好嗓音，能适应多种不同风格的作品和角色。近20年来，世界上涌现出一批歌唱技巧非常出色的女高音，芮妮·弗莱明是她们当中的佼佼者。但从全面的艺术素养来说，与卡拉斯、苔芭尔迪、萨瑟兰、普赖斯、卡巴耶、弗芮妮那一批大师尚有相当的距离。

One of the most beloved and celebrated musical ambassadors of our time, soprano Renée Fleming captivates audiences with her sumptuous voice, consummate artistry, and compelling stage presence. At a White House ceremony in July of this year, the President awarded Ms. Fleming the National Medal of Arts, America's highest honor for an individual artist. Known as “the people’s diva” and winner of the 2013 Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Solo, she continues to grace the world’s greatest opera stages and concert halls, now extending her reach to include other musical forms and media. Over the past few seasons, Ms. Fleming has hosted a wide variety of television and radio broadcasts, including the Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD series for movie theaters and television, and Live From Lincoln Center on PBS.

As a musical statesman, Renée Fleming has been sought after on numerous distinguished occasions, from the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize ceremony to performances in Beijing during the 2008 Olympic Games. In January 2009, Ms. Fleming was featured in the televised We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial concert for President Obama. In 2012, in an historic first, Ms. Fleming sang on the balcony of Buckingham Palace in the Diamond Jubilee Concert for HM Queen Elizabeth II. Ms. Fleming has also performed for the United States Supreme Court and, in November 2009, celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Czech Republic’s “Velvet Revolution” at the invitation of Václav Havel. An additional distinction was bestowed in 2008 when, breaking a precedent, Ms. Fleming became the first woman in the 125-year history of the Metropolitan Opera to solo headline an opening night gala.

In 2012, Renée Fleming added a new role to her repertoire, Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos, at Baden-Baden in a new production by Philippe Arlaud, conducted by Christian Thielemann. She appeared in the title role of Arabella in a new production at the Paris Opera and her Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier was seen at the Munich Opernfestspiele. Renée began the 2012-13 season as Desdemona in Otello at the Metropolitan Opera, broadcast around the world via the MET Opera Live in HD. 2013 found her at Carnegie Hall and Lyric Opera of Chicago in André Previn's A Streetcar Named Desire, playing Blanche DuBois, a role she created in the world premiere. In June, she returned to Vienna as the Countess in Strauss's Cappriccio, conducted by Christoph Eschenbach. She will be seen there again as the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier in October, conducted by Adam Fischer. She will begin 2014 with her acclaimed portrayal of the title character in Dvorak's Rusalka at the Metropolitan Opera, under the baton of Yannick Nézet-Séguin. May of 2014 will mark the Los Angeles Opera debut of Renée's Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire.

Renée began the 2012-13 season singing for the inaugural concerts of Christian Thielemann as principal conductor of the Staatskapelle Dresden and Yannick Nézet-Séguin as Music Director of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Her 2012-13 recital schedule included Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Buenos Aires, Quito, Bogota, Guayaquil, Paris, Geneva, London, Vienna, Hong Kong, Beijing, Guangzhou, and Taipei, and a January 2013 duo recital with Renée's friend, mezzo-soprano Susan Graham, toured to San Francisco, Los Angeles, Palm Desert, Chicago, New York and Boston. The start of the 2013-14 season found Renee opening the Houston Symphony Orchestra's Centennial season. Concerts in Nashville, Ottawa and Dallas follow. In November, Renée will join with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to present American Voices, a concert and 3-day festival celebrating the best American singing in all genres. Renée will close 2013 with New Year's Eve concerts in Dresden, under the baton of Christian Thielemann.

A four-time Grammy winner, Ms. Fleming won the 2013 Best Classical Vocal Solo Grammy Award for Poèmes (Decca, 2012), a collection of 20th-Century French music, including works composed especially for her by Henri Dutilleux. In June 2010, Decca and Mercury records released the CD Dark Hope, which features Ms. Fleming covering songs by indie-rock and pop artists. Recent DVD releases include Handel's Rodelinda, Massenet’s Thaïs and Rossini’s Armida, all three in the Metropolitan Opera Live in HD series, and Verdi’s Traviata, filmed at London’s Royal Opera House. Ms. Fleming's 2010 DVD Renée Fleming & Dmitri Hvorostovsky: A Musical Odyssey in St. Petersburg follows Ms. Fleming and baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky to Russia, where they explore and perform in some of St. Petersburg's most historic locations. In recent years, this fourteen-time Grammy nominated artist has recorded everything from Strauss’s complete Daphne to the jazz album Haunted Heart to the movie soundtrack of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. She recorded Alexandre Desplat's theme song, "Still Dream" for the soundtrack of the Dreamworks Animation feature, "Rise of the Guardians," a major Thanksgiving 2012 release. Her recording honors range from the 2009 Echo Award for Strauss’s Four Last Songs to the Prix Maria Callas Orphée d’Or by the Académie du Disque Lyric for TDK’s DVD production of Capriccio. In February, 2012, Ms. Fleming received the Victoire d’Honneur, the highest award conveyed by the French Victoires de la Musique.

Renée Fleming’s artistry has been an inspiration to many other prominent artists, such as Chuck Close and Robert Wilson, whose portraits of her were included in the Metropolitan Opera’s 2007 fundraising auction. Two portraits of Ms. Fleming were also created by Francesco Clemente, who revealed one in Salzburg in spring 2007, with the Metropolitan Opera displaying the other in 2008. Photographic portraits include works by Brigitte Lacombe, Annie Leibovitz, and Irving Penn, among others.

Ms. Fleming is a champion of new music and has performed works by a wide range of contemporary composers, including recent compositions by Henri Dutilleux, Brad Mehldau, André Previn, and Wayne Shorter. Among her numerous awards are the Fulbright Lifetime Achievement Medal (2011); Sweden’s Polar Prize (2008); the Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur from the French government (2005); Honorary Membership in the Royal Academy of Music (2003); and honorary doctorates from Carnegie Mellon University (2012), the Eastman School of Music (2011) and The Juilliard School (2003), where she was also commencement speaker.

An advocate for literacy, Renée Fleming has been featured in promotional campaigns for the Association of American Publishers (Get Caught Reading), and the Magazine Publishers of America’s READ poster campaign for the American Library Association. She was honored by The New York Public Library as a “Library Lion.” Her book, The Inner Voice, was published by Viking Penguin in 2004, and released in paperback by Penguin the following year. An intimate account of her career and creative process, the book is also published in France by Fayard Editions, in the United Kingdom by Virgin Books, by Henschel Verlag in Germany, Shunjusha in Japan, and by Fantom Press in Russia.

In addition to her work on stage and in recordings, Renée Fleming has represented Rolex timepieces in print advertising since 2001. In 2008, she launched La Voce by Renée Fleming, a fragrance designed for her, with the proceeds benefiting the Metropolitan Opera. Master Chef Daniel Boulud created the dessert “La Diva Renée” (1999) in her honor, and she inspired the “Renée Fleming Iris” (2004), which has been replicated in porcelain by Boehm. Having been added to Mr. Blackwell’s best dressed list, her concert gowns have been designed by Reem Acra, Gianfranco Ferré, John Galliano for Dior, Douglas Hannant, Christian Lacroix, Oscar de la Renta, Angel Sanchez and Vivienne Westwood. In addition to serving as the face of opera for two public transit campaigns in New York and London, Ms. Fleming has appeared on The Martha Stewart Show, Spectacle: Elvis Costello with…, The View and Prairie Home Companion as “Renata Flambé,” among numerous other media outlets.

Ms. Fleming is currently a member of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Hall Corporation, the Board of Sing for Hope, and the Advisory Board of the White Nights Foundation of America. In 2010, she was named the first-ever Creative Consultant at Lyric Opera of Chicago, where she is also a member of the Board and a Vice President. She is currently curating the creation of a world-premiere opera based on the best-seller Bel Canto for Lyric Opera's 2015-2016 season.