Renée Fleming; "Simple Song"; MASS; Leonard Bernstein

This channel is the re-establishment of previous channels that have been sadly terminated. ========================= Renée Fleming--soprano Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Andreas Delfs--conductor 2005 ================= "Renée Fleming, (born February 14, 1959, Indiana, Pennsylvania, U.S.), American soprano noted for the beauty and richness of her voice and for the thought and sensitivity she brought to the texts. Fleming’s repertoire was extraordinarily broad, spanning three centuries and ranging from Handel and Mozart through 19th-century bel canto to the works of a number of contemporary composers. Fleming grew up in Rochester, New York, where her parents taught music in high school. She began music lessons as a young child and as a college student had success as a jazz vocalist. In 1981 she graduated from the State University of New York at Potsdam with a degree in music education. She continued her studies at the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester and the Juilliard School’s American Opera Center in New York City. She spent 1984–85 on a Fulbright fellowship in West Germany, where she studied with Arleen Augér and Elisabeth Schwarzkopf. Fleming made her professional debut in Salzburg, Austria, in 1986. Two years later she won the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, followed by the George London Award and the Richard Tucker Award. Among Fleming’s more-admired roles were Fiordiligi in Mozart’s Così fan tutte, Marguerite in Charles Gounod’s...