Renee Fleming lands another job
NewsThe American soprano, 62, has just been named Advisor for Special Projects to Los Angeles Opera until 2024.
She is also co-artistic director of Aspen Opera Theater, of the Kennedy Center in Washington DC and of Song Studio at Carnegie Hall. As well as Special Projects Advisor to Chicago’s Lyric Opera.
She’s got the whole world in her hands.
Because she’s got it all.
… from the other hand she has done much for music so she deserves it
just my opinion of course 😉
She’s hardly got the whole world in her hands when all the appointments are in the US and Canada. Other countries and continents do exist.
What’s she doing in Canada?
And at age 62 her voice sounds younger and fresher than most of her colleagues half her age.
She clearly knows what she’s doing. Why would anybody have a problem with her sharing the wisdom she has acquired over her lifetime with the next generation of singers?
To her credit, and she is a truly lovely person, young people and business people respond to her in an enthusiastic way. And in this schizophrenic artistic climate where ‘classical’ music can mean anything. This Aquarian girl can relate, and move the genre forward. That I don’t much care for Bjork as classical music, or her leather and chains CD is irrelevant. And we are both the same age.
She’s a great representative for these efforts. She has done a great job in Chicago.
So she’s now working with two of the biggest opera companies in the U.S., plus the Kennedy Center? Doesn’t it speak to a little dearth of imagination in the U.S. opera world that they can’t find more people to fill these rolls? Kinda like when Placido was running both LA and Washington Opera.
It’s akin to (well, years ago) slapping the name of Trump on a hotel. Basically, licensing your name.
All of those jobs and she doesn’t do a single one of them all that well.
There’s a big difference between spreading fairy dust and doing the hard work. She missed the mark if she is trying to emulate Beverly Sills.
Hmmm
Your comments don’t seem to agree with other posted comments
The result of being up front and personal…
He is correct. The hard work is running a successful and profitable company like Sills who was also a rainmaker. Sills was a brilliant woman, now derided as a b…..and the know it all’s’ ran that company, NYCO into the ground with esoteric non crowd pleasing programming, Mathis der Mahler and Marilyn. Fleming is a ‘rainmaker’ and that is enough of a job. Sills was a phenomenon
You must be joking. Or deaf.
Wonderful singer and huge ambassador for music. Renee is a champion.
As someone who has been to LA Opera Donor dinners, I can understand why LA Opera hired Renee. Her main job will be to schmooze with big donors a few times a year.
LA Opera likes to pay people a lot of money for jobs that they don’t have time to do.