Fleming, Renée (1959- )

US soprano. She studied in New York and made her debut at the Salzburg Landestheater, in 1986, as Mozart's Constanze. She is best known as the Countess, which she has sung in Houston, San Francisco, and Paris. She made her debut at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, in 1988, as Glauce in Cherubini's Médée, returning as the Comtesse in Rossini's Il Viaggio a Reims/The Journey to Rheims in 1992. She created Rosina in Corigliano's The Ghosts of Versailles at the New York Metropolitan Opera House in 1991, and sang Fiordiligi at Glyndebourne in 1992 (returning in 1994 as the Countess). Her other roles include Pamina and Tatiana (both at the Metropolitan Opera House), Donna Elvira (at La Scala), Massenet's Thaïs (in Washington DC), and Rossini's Armida.