The Art of Renée Fleming
The album titled “The Art of Renée Fleming” brings together 18 tracks of songs and arias, spanning Renée’s finest recordings, including favorite arias by Puccini, Handel and Gershwin and duets with Bryn Terfel and Plácido Domingo.
The selections are:
Bellini:
- Casta Diva (from Norma)
Bernstein:
- Somewhere (from West Side Story), with Placido Domingo (tenor)
Catalani:
- Ebben? Ne andrò lontana (from La Wally)
Cilea:
- Io son l’umile ancella (from Adriana Lecouvreur)
Dvorak:
- Mesícku na nebi hlubokém ‘Song to the Moon’ (from Rusalka)
Gershwin:
- Summertime (from Porgy and Bess)
Gounod:
- Ah! Je veux vivre dans ce rêve (from Roméo et Juliette)
- Ave Maria
Handel:
- Ombra mai fu (from Serse)
Korngold:
- Glück, das mir verbleib ‘Marietta’s Lied’ (from Die Tote Stadt)
Puccini:
- Vissi d’arte (from Tosca)
- Un bel di vedremo (from Madama Butterfly)
- O mio babbino caro (from Gianni Schicchi)
Schubert:
- Ave Maria, D839
Performed by Renée Fleming (soprano)
Listen to Ms. Fleming’s wonderful voice that has entertained audiences for many years:
First, here is Opera singer Renee Fleming, as she sings the “Top Ten list” on the Late Show with David Letterman in 2013: (Funny!)
http://youtu.be/pD5qwBHVPGw
And here is Renée Fleming singing Sergej Rachmaninov’s romance “Ne poj, krasaviza, pri mne” (Не пой, красавица, при мне / Don’t sing to me, fair maiden):
Tags: Renee Fleming, Handel, Puccini, Schubert