If you’ve seen Guillermo Del Toro’s Oscar-nominated film The Shape of Water, you were probably mesmerized by the gorgeous singing of the classic song, You’ll Never Know. I wasn’t sure who the singer was, but I should have been. It was soprano Reneé Felming.
Ms. Fleming is returning to Los Angeles for a one-night only concert on Tuesday, February 6th at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. She will be accompanied by pianist Hartmut Höll. The program includes works by Brahms, Händel, Fauré, Dvořák and a tribute to Barbara Cook with a couple songs from musicals in which the late Broadway star appeared.
Always open to taking some risks, Fleming will be performing works by Caroline Shaw (winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2013) and Rufus Wainwright (know mostly for his seven albums of original songs.)
Before retiring from roles in operas, Fleming played Blanche DuBois in Andre Previn’s opera of Tennessee Williams’ immortal play, A Streetcar Named Desire for LA Opera in 2014. Co-starring as Stanley Kowalski was Ryan McKinny who just completed four performances of Leonard Bernstein’s Mass with the LA Philharmonic.
Since Fleming no longer performs roles in operas, this is the first opportunity to see her on a stage in Los Angeles since 2016.
