Great Performances at the Met: Renée Fleming in Concert | Watch & Wonder Weekly Highlight

Friday, December 30, 1 PM

For next week’s Watch & Wonder Highlight, we’re thrilled to feature this episode of Great Performances. After watching, dive deeper with a classic Mountain Lake PBS interview featuring soprano Renée Fleming. The singer talks to us about the origin of her career and her passion for music.

In Great Performances at the Met: Renée Fleming in Concert, experience the beloved American soprano perform arias by Puccini and Massenet to selections by Handel and Korngold from the intimate music salon of Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C.

Super Soprano Renée Fleming: Crane School of Music Alumna

Grades 6-12
In this archival “Spotlight” segment from 2011, opera superstar Renée Fleming talks about her singing career and her interest in music education, something the Rochester native studied at the Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam. 

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