Piedmont Opera, in partnership with Novant Health, will launch its 50th Anniversary Season with two events featuring star soprano Renée Fleming. Together, the events will explore the transformative power of music to heal, inspire and connect while celebrating the intersection of the arts, science and community. The first event will take place on Sept. 18 with Fleming will lead Music {…}
(Credit: Andrew Eccles) Renée Fleming is paying tribute to Dolly Parton after her passing at the age of 80. The soprano took to social media and said, “Dolly Parton was everything an artist can hope to be. Her goodness shone in whatever she did, from her beautiful, unmistakable voice to her inspiring philanthropy, in programs like her Imagination Library, scholarships, {…}
Soprano Renée Fleming is being featured on Tiny Desk alongside banjo player Béla Fleck. The soprano is currently on tour with Fleck across the United States performing American bluegrass and folk music, from Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles to Carnegie Hall in New York. The new Tiny Desk episode explores songs from Fleming and Fleck’s new album “The {…}
Piedmont Opera announces its 2026-27 and 50th anniversary season. Prior to her recital Renée Fleming hosts “Music and Mind with Renée Fleming: Harnessing the Arts to Heal & Connect.” Performance Date: Sept. 18, 2026 Renée Fleming presents “Voice of Nature—The Anthropocene.” Performance Date: Sept. 19, 2026 Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s “Another Sunrise” and “Before It All Goes Dark” will {…}
The Metropolitan Opera has announced the summer encores its Live in HD series. The company will first present the 2015 performances of Lehár’s “The Merry Widow” on July 22, directed by Susan Stroman and starring renowned soprano Renée Fleming. The cast also includes Nathan Gunn and Kelli O’Hara. Andrew Davis conducts. The second will be a 2025 transmission of the Met’s {…}
The Teatro alla Scala has announced its 2026-27 season. Opera Myung–Whun Chung conducts Verdi’s “Otello” for opening night in a production by Damiano Michieletto. The cast will include Brian Jagde, Luca Salsi, and Eleonora Buratto accompanied by Juan Francisco Gatell and Szilvia Vörös. A second cast will star Arsen Soghomonyan, Roberto Frontali and Roberta Mantegna. Performance Dates: Dec. 7, 2026-Jan. 5, 2027 Bizet’s {…}
(Photo credit: Andrew Eccles) LA Opera has announced that its previously scheduled June 20 recital with Renée Fleming at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion has been reimagined as a cross-genre collaboration with banjo virtuoso Béla Fleck. The showcase case, now titled “Renée Fleming with Béla Fleck: The Fiddle and the Drum,” is now set for Sept. 22, 2026 at Walt Disney {…}
The Washington National Opera has announced its 2026-27 season. Opera The season opens with Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” in a production by E. Loren Meeker. Karah Son sings the title role with Matthew White, and Michelle Mariposa. Erina Yashima conducts. Performance Dates: Nov. 7-20, 2026 John Adams’ “Nixon in China” will be conducted by Robert Spano and directed by Elkhanah Pulitzer. Renée {…}
LA Opera has announced its fifth annual Los Angeles County Arts and Health Week Summit, set to take place on June 12 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles. Soprano Renée Fleming, who serves as LA Opera’s Special Projects Advisor and as a World Health Organization Goodwill Ambassador for Arts and Health, will host and introduce the day-long event, {…}
Carnegie Hall is set to celebrate the 50th anniversary of its “Concert of the Century” on May 5, 2026. Organized by famed violinist Isaac Stern, the original 1976 event brought together some of the world’s greatest musicians for a now-legendary “concert-celebration” that commemorated the anniversary of the Hall’s opening on May 5, 1891. Fifty years later and 135 years after {…}
The Orchestre symphonique de Montréal has announced its 2026-27 season. Rafael Payare conducts Miah Persson, Rose Naggar-Tremblay, Clay Hilley, and Matthias Goerne in Gustav Mahler’s “Des Knaben Wunderhorn (extraits)” and “Das klagende Lied” (version mixte). Performance Dates: Sept. 16 & 17, 2026 Asher Fish leads the Chœur and orchestra de l’OSM in Hana Ajiashvili’s “Riddle,” Adrian Mocanu’s “de l’encra escafada”(“from faded ink”), Dalit Hadass Warshaw’s “Letter {…}