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Renee Fleming

Renee Fleming adabadwa pa February 14, 1959 ku Indiana, Pennsylvania, USA ndipo adakulira ku Rochester, New York. Makolo ake anali aphunzitsi a nyimbo ndi kuimba. Anapita ku State University of New York ku Potsdam, atamaliza maphunziro ake mu 1981 ndi digiri ya maphunziro a nyimbo. Komabe, sanaganizire ntchito yake yamtsogolo kukhala mu opera.

Ngakhale pamene amaphunzira ku yunivesite, adachita nawo gulu la jazi ku bar komweko. Mawu ake ndi luso lake zidakopa katswiri wodziwika bwino wa saxophonist ku Illinois Jacquet, yemwe adamuitana kuti ayende ndi gulu lake lalikulu. M'malo mwake, Rene anapita ku sukulu ya Eastman School (Conservatory) ya nyimbo, ndipo kuyambira 1983 mpaka 1987 anaphunzira ku Juilliard School (sukulu yaikulu ya ku America ya maphunziro apamwamba a zaluso) ku New York.

Mu 1984, adalandira thandizo la maphunziro a Fulbright ndipo adapita ku Germany kukaphunzira nyimbo za opera, m'modzi mwa aphunzitsi ake anali Elisabeth Schwarzkopf. Fleming anabwerera ku New York mu 1985 ndipo anamaliza maphunziro ake pa Sukulu ya Juilliard.

Adakali wophunzira, Renée Fleming anayamba ntchito yake yaukatswiri m’makampani ang’onoang’ono a zisudzo ndi maudindo ang’onoang’ono. Mu 1986, ku Theatre of the Federal State (Salzburg, Austria), adayimba udindo wake woyamba - Constanza kuchokera ku opera ya Kulanda kwa Seraglio ndi Mozart. Udindo wa Constanza ndi imodzi mwa zovuta kwambiri mu nyimbo za soprano, ndipo Fleming adavomereza yekha kuti akufunikirabe kugwira ntchito pa luso la mawu ndi luso. Zaka ziwiri pambuyo pake, mu 1988, adapambana mipikisano yambiri nthawi imodzi: mpikisano wa Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions kwa osewera achichepere, Mphotho ya George London ndi mpikisano wa Eleanor McCollum ku Houston. M'chaka chomwecho, woimbayo adamupanga kukhala Countess kuchokera ku Le nozze di Figaro ya Mozart ku Houston, ndipo chaka chotsatira ku New York Opera ndi pa siteji ya Covent Garden monga Mimi ku La bohème.

Sewero loyamba la Metropolitan Opera linakonzekera 1992, koma mwadzidzidzi linagwa pa March 1991, pamene Felicity Lott adadwala, ndipo Fleming adalowa m'malo mwa Countess mu Le nozze di Figaro. Ndipo ngakhale adadziwika kuti ndi soprano yowala, panalibe kutchuka mwa iye - izi zidabwera pambuyo pake, pomwe adakhala "Gold Standard of the soprano". Ndipo izi zisanachitike, panali ntchito zambiri, kubwerezabwereza, maudindo osiyanasiyana a masewero onse, maulendo padziko lonse lapansi, zojambula, zokwera ndi zotsika.

Sanawope zoopsa ndipo adavomereza zovuta, imodzi mwazomwe zinali mu 1997 udindo wa Manon Lescaut ku Jules Massenet ku Opéra Bastille ku Paris. A French amalemekeza cholowa chawo, koma kuchita bwino kwa phwandolo kunamubweretsera chigonjetso. Zomwe zidachitikira a French sizinachitike kwa aku Italiya… Don Giovanni" ndi Mozart. Fleming amatcha masewero a 1998 ku Milan "usiku wake woipitsitsa wa moyo wa opaleshoni".

Masiku ano Renee Fleming ndi mmodzi mwa oimba otchuka kwambiri masiku ano. Kuphatikizika kwa luso la mawu ndi kukongola kwa timbre, kusinthasintha kwamasinthidwe ndi chikoka chochititsa chidwi kumapangitsa kuti machitidwe ake akhale opambana. Amapanga mwaluso magawo osiyanasiyana monga Verdi's Desdemona ndi Handel's Alcina. Chifukwa cha nthabwala zake, womasuka komanso womasuka kulankhulana, Fleming nthawi zonse amaitanidwa kuti achite nawo mapulogalamu osiyanasiyana a pawailesi yakanema ndi wailesi.

Zojambulajambula ndi DVD ya woimbayo ili ndi ma Albums pafupifupi 50, kuphatikizapo jazz. Ma Albamu ake atatu adapambana Mphotho ya Grammy, yomaliza kukhala Verismo (2010, mndandanda wa ma opera a Puccini, Mascagni, Cilea, Giordano ndi Leoncavallo).

Ndandanda ya ntchito ya Renee Fleming ikukonzekera zaka zingapo kutsogolo. Mwa kuvomereza kwake, masiku ano amakonda kwambiri zochitika za konsati payekha kuposa opera.