PR Renee Fleming: A YoungArts Masterclass Debuts Monday May 28
HBO
Each year, thousands of high school students apply to the YoungArts Program to be mentored by the world's leading artists. In this all-new YoungArts Masterclass special, four young singers participate in a memorable workshop with Renee Fleming, the Grammy-winning, celebrated soprano opera singer, who has performed in operas and concert halls worldwide for over 20 years.
RENEE FLEMMING: A YOUNGARTS MASTERCLASS debuts MONDAY MAY 28TH (6:00p.m. ET/PT) on HBO
Each year, thousands of high school students apply to the YoungArts Program to be mentored by the world's leading artists. In this all-new YoungArts Masterclass special, four young singers participate in a memorable workshop with Renee Fleming, the Grammy(R)-winning, celebrated soprano opera singer, who has performed in operas and concert halls worldwide for over 20 years.
Through these unique experiences, Renee Fleming: A YoungArts Masterclass highlights the importance of mentorship, which resonates in the arts and beyond, while bringing the expertise of one of the world's legendary opera singers to HBO audiences.
From Wikipedia:
Ren'e Fleming is an American soprano specializing in opera and lieder. Fleming has a full lyric soprano voice. Fleming has performed coloratura, lyric, and lighter spinto soprano repertoires. She has sung 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 Marschallin in Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, and the title role in Arabella.
A 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.
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."
