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Renee Fleming

NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 06: Soprano Renee Fleming (R) performs along with singer, songwriter and actor Josh Groban and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra on stage as part of 'Live From Lincoln Center' at the Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse at Lincoln Center on April 6, 2012 in New York City.

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About Renee Fleming

Renée Fleming (b. February 14, 1959), is an accomplished American soprano specializing in opera and lieder. Fleming possesses a flexible full lyric soprano voice supported by a formidable and solid technique that provides ringing freedom and apparent ease near the extreme top of its range. Although lyrical in nature, Fleming's voice has a substantial amount of solidity and power which allows her to sing a variety of roles from the bel canto, lyric, and lighter spinto repertoires. Her linguistic proficiency, too, serves as an asset -- she has sung roles in Italian, German, French, Czech, and Russian, aside from her native English; indeed, she speaks fluent German and French, along with limited Italian.

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