Renée Fleming

Aspen Opera Ensemble alumna Renée Fleming is one of the most highly acclaimed singers of our time, performing on the stages of the world’s great opera houses and concert halls. Winner of five Grammy® awards and the US National Medal of Arts, she has sung for momentous occasions from the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony to the Super Bowl. In 2023, the World Health Organization appointed her as a Goodwill Ambassador for Arts and Health, and this year at Davos, she became an inaugural member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Arts and Culture Council.

Recent opera performances include The Hours at the Metropolitan Opera, and Nixon in China at the Opéra de Paris. In 2023 Renée received the Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Solo for Voice of Nature: The Anthropocene, which inspired a current concert tour with a film created for the program by the National Geographic Society.

Renée’s anthology, Music and Mind: Harnessing the Arts for Health and Wellness, was published in 2024. A prominent advocate for research at the intersection of arts, health, and neuroscience, she has given presentations on this field with scientists and practitioners around the world. 

Renée is an artist-faculty member of the AMFS New Horizons Program, which is made possible by an endowment gift by Kay and Matthew Bucksbaum. Advisor for special projects at L.A. Opera and Artist Development Advisor for Wolf Trap Opera, her other awards include the Fulbright Lifetime Achievement Medal, Germany’s Cross of the Order of Merit, France’s Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur, and honorary doctorates from ten universities. www.reneefleming.com