Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Fleming has also recorded songs for the soundtracks of several major films, two of which won the Academy Award for Best Picture (The Shape of Water and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King). Fleming has made numerous television appearances, and she is the only classical singer to have performed the US National Anthem at the Super Bowl.
Rhonda Fleming (born Marilyn Louis, August 10, 1923 – October 14, 2020) was an American film and television actress and singer. She acted in more than 40 films, mostly in the 1940s and 1950s, and became renowned as one of the most glamorous actresses of her day, nicknamed the "Queen of Technicolor " because she photographed so well in that ...
Poèmes is a 2012 album of French songs sung by operatic soprano Renée Fleming. Ravel's Shéhérazade (1903) and Messiaen's Poèmes pour Mi (1936) are followed by two sets of songs by Henri Dutilleux. He transcribed Deux sonnets de Jean Cassou for Fleming (it was originally for baritone voice) and composed Le temps l'horloge specifically for ...
The Hours is a 2022 opera in two acts with music by Kevin Puts and an English-language libretto by Greg Pierce, based on Michael Cunningham's 1998 novel and its 2002 film adaptation, both with the same title.
The Four Last Songs (German: Vier letzte Lieder), Op. posth., for soprano and orchestra are – with the exception of the song "Malven" (Mallows), composed later the same year – the final completed works of Richard Strauss.
Gulf News described Barber's "Knoxville: Summer of 1915" as "a perfect fit for Fleming's silvery, soaring soprano". They also noted the "textured, emotional soundscape" of Hillborg's The Strand Settings and the "contemporary" sound of Björk's songs. [ 2 ]
Haunted Heart is a jazz album by Renée Fleming with pianist Fred Hersch and guitarist Bill Frisell. [1]The title track is a 1948 song by Arthur Schwartz (music) and Howard Dietz (lyrics) which was the main hit from the musical revue Inside U.S.A..
The music is jazz-pop, instead of Fleming's more usual operatic material. [1] The album was released by Decca Records on November 3, 2014. [2] It was promoted in part by a PBS broadcast led by Fleming on December 4 of that year. [3]