Had all gone according to plan three years ago, Chicagoans would have witnessed an unprecedented celestial event at Symphony Center. We’re not talking astronomy. April 2020 was to be the ...

In 1948, German composer Richard Strauss set Hermann Hesse's beautiful poem "September" to music, but he didn't live to hear it on stage. It's part of a set now known as Four Last Songs, a song cycle ...

Famed soprano Renée Fleming wants people to better understand the link between music and health. Musical activities can help nonverbal children speak, aid in recovery after a stroke, and improve the ...

Weekends are busy at the Aspen Music Festival with the big orchestra concerts in the Benedict Music Tent Fridays and Sundays, a marquee recital Saturday evenings and a chamber music concert featuring ...

Soprano Renée Fleming may be most famous for her decades-long career as an opera singer. But it’s been a long time since opera was her only focus. She has recorded jazz, Broadway, rock, lieder and ...

When superstar soprano Renée Fleming last performed a Twin Cities recital in 2016, it felt a lot like goodbye. She’d recently announced her retirement from the opera stage. and who knew how long it ...

For one of the world’s best-known opera stars, Renée Fleming has sure popped up in some expected places. The soaring soprano is the only classical singer to perform the National Anthem at the Super ...

Soprano Diva Renée Fleming, with pianist Howard Watkins, came to Krannert on Jan. 25, and before an almost capacity audience in Foellinger Great Hall, gave a challenging and unique recital. It was my ...

Fleming is making her directorial debut in Colorado working with young artists on Mozart’s “Così Fan Tutte,” an opera in which she appeared early in her career. By Zachary Woolfe Brett Mitchell led ...

Renée Fleming will make her Tulsa Opera debut with Voice of Nature: The Anthropocene, a multimedia concert on Saturday, May 10, at 7:30 p.m. at Chapman Music Hall in the Tulsa Performing Arts Center.