RENÉE FLEMING
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SILICON VALLEY, CA -- In the past, if you wanted to hear any of the world's famous Opera singers who had sang on the stage of the METROPOLITAN OPERA, you needed to go to NEW YORK CITY and see an opera, but now THE MET's pay-per-view recital series Met Stars Live in Concert, allows music lovers from around the world to listen to individual MET stars in concert, streamed live via the Met website to your computer for the price of $20.00 per concert. To purchase tickets for the concert series all you have to do is go to: https://metstarslive.brightcove-services.com/
The series, will continues with a concert by soprano RENÉE FLEMING performing live in the music salon of the historic Dumbarton Oaks estate in Washington D.C. with piano accompaniment by ROBERT AINSLEY on Saturday, August 1st at 1PM ET (11 AM our time) and the program will then be available, on demand, through Wednesday, August 12. The selected program will allow its listeners to hear a wide repertory of FLEMING's favorite arias from PUCCINI and MASSENET to selection by HANDEL and KORNGOLD.
Highlights on the program will include: "Endless pleasure, endless love" "Baïléro" "Adieu notre petite table" "Da geht er hin" "Glück das mir verblieb "Io son l'umile ancella" "O mio babbino caro" "Over the Rainbow" RENÉE FLEMING American soprano RENÉE FLEMING has appeared with all the world's leading opera companies and orchestras and is a recipient of the National Medal of Arts, four Grammy Awards, Sweden's Polar Music Prize, Germany's Cross of the Order of Merit, and the Fulbright Lifetime Achievement Medal. She had been awarded the titles of Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur and Commandeur de L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government. ROBERT AINSLEY Pianist and Conductor ROBERT AINSLEY is a graduate of the Met's Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, and currently director of Washington National Opera's Cafritz Young Artist Program and American Opera Initiative.
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