Renée Fleming

Renée Fleming is one of the most highly acclaimed singers of our time, performing on the stages of the world’s great opera houses and concert halls. Winner of five Grammy® awards and the US National Medal of Arts, she has sung for momentous occasions from the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony to the Diamond Jubilee Concert for HM Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace. In 2023, the World Health Organization appointed Renée as Goodwill Ambassador for Arts and Health.

Renée’s anthology, Music and Mind: Harnessing the Arts for Health and Wellness, was published in April, 2024. A prominent advocate for research at the intersection of arts, health, and neuroscience, as former Artistic Advisor to the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Renée launched the first ongoing collaboration between America’s national cultural center and its largest health research institute, the National Institutes of Health. She created her own program called Music and the Mind, which she has presented in countless cities around the world.

Recent opera performances include The Hours at the Metropolitan Opera, and Nixon in China at the Opéra de Paris. In 2023 Renée received the Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Solo for Voice of Nature: The Anthropocene, which inspired a current concert tour with a film created for the program by the National Geographic Society. 

Renée is Co-Artistic Director of the Aspen Opera Center and VocalArts at the Aspen Music Festival. Other awards include the 2023 Crystal Award from the World Economic Forum in Davos, the Fulbright Lifetime Achievement Medal, and honorary doctorates from ten leading universities. www.reneefleming.com