2003 Guestbook




Full Name: Anna Simiñska
Home Page: None.
Date and Time: 8/26/2003, 3:46 AM
Comments: Hello! I'm writing to send You my best wishes ang hope You will come to Poland again someday. I was in Wroclaw on Your outstanding recital. I think it is possible that You remember me. I was standing in a hall and ased for a sign, sitting on stairs during Your suondcheck and after concert I gave You a yellow rose. I really love the sound of Your voice and dream about being on another concerts. I am studing in Music Academy in Warsaw and I always wanted to be a classical singer and to be like You.

Anna Simiñska
 
Full Name: Gregg V. Page
Home Page: http://hometown.aol.com/mostmajesticone/
Date and Time: 8/24/2003, 2:55 AM
Comments: I'm listening to your Bel Canto cd right now and I'm speechless! Incredible! I remember being a freshman voice major and hearing you for the first time in "The Ghost of Versaille." At the time I couldn't wait to see what the future brought for you, but I must say, you've exceeded every possible expectation. Thank you for sharing you incredible talent with us! You've got a fan for life.
 
Full Name: Teresa Locke Godbey
Home Page: None.
Date and Time: 8/22/2003, 1:16 PM
Comments: It was my highest priviledge to meet you, Renee, after your Birmingham, Alabama concert in 2002. I hope your tour will bring you back South very soon. My friends are so sick of me raving about you. You were wonderful, as always. I have just picked up OperaNews with you on the cover and your story is fabulous! I hope to visit with you again very soon.

Brava!
Teresa Godbey
 
Full Name: Irene Kokai
Home Page: None.
Date and Time: 8/20/2003, 1:06 PM
Comments: We were fortunate to hear Renee Fleming several times in the Met
(we are subscribers) and just yesterday 8/19/03
I went down to NYC from CT to the Met to stand in line and exchange
our Traviata tickets for Renee's 3/6/04 performance. I call this
"What I did for love" - the love for her voice, the love for opera.
All the best wishes for Renee Fleming for continuing success from a 68 years old, yours truly
Iren Kokai
Old Saybrook, CT
 
Full Name: Bob Workmon
Home Page: http://wfdd.org
Date and Time: 8/16/2003, 10:48 AM
Comments: Just wanted to express my admiration. I play Renee's recordings on the air frequently, most recently multiple tracks from her musical theater collaboration with Bryn Terfel --Bob, program director @ WFDD Public Radio
 
Full Name: Laura Heydt and Ryan Adams
Home Page: None.
Date and Time: 8/13/2003, 4:06 PM
Comments: Ms. Fleming,
We just wanted to thank you again for being so kind! We loved the concert on Sunday and it was such a pleasure to meet you again. Hopefully we'll be seeing you again in New York!
Your new groupies,
Laura and Ryan
 
Full Name: Dr. Carolyn F. Leary
Home Page: None.
Date and Time: 8/11/2003, 9:16 AM
Comments:

Outstanding performance at Tanglewood yesterday.

Brava!!!!
 
Full Name: Adèle
Home Page: http://adelefalk.tripod.com
Date and Time: 8/11/2003, 8:03 AM
Comments: Hey Renée-

It's Adèle. Sorry I have not been back to say "hi" or anything! My singing life has been pretty crazy as well. I hope to see you when your in Kansas this spring, but I don't know it's right around when I get back from Italy (yesyes) so I don't know - we shall see.

I'm about to graduate high school in a year or two, and looking into colleges. I admire you so much! I hope my career is half as successful as yours.

You have such a lovely voice! Stay sweet! :-)
~Adèle
 
Full Name: joni
Home Page: None.
Date and Time: 8/9/2003, 2:31 PM
Comments: i heard ur wonderful performance of Rusalka at covent garden. however, i'm really upset with the review from the Times which was really ridiculous comment about you. I just want to say that you are really amazing DIVA. hope to see you again. cheers.
 
Full Name: Elizabeth Best
Home Page: None.
Date and Time: 7/31/2003, 6:45 PM
Comments: Hey Renee,
Just wanted to send a few words of greeting to someone who has worked her proverbial ass off to get where she is. I have seen you perform live on a few occasions, and have some of your recordings. Let's put this as succinctly as possible:
I would listen to you read the telephone book! Keep on trucking, and continue to produce that beautiful music as long as you continue to enjoy it.
Warmly, Elizabeth Best
 
Full Name: Mary P. Lattanzio
Home Page: None.
Date and Time: 7/28/2003, 7:44 PM
Comments: Hi Renee:
We were in school together at the Crane School of Music, Potsdam. I was a French Horn player in the orchestra and a friend of Caroline Williams. I graduated in 1980. I went on to teach vocal and instrumental music for the past 22 years in the Schenectady City School District. I also have a Masters in Music from Ithaca College. I am so proud of your sucess and full acheivement in the world of Opera. I hope to catch a performance either in New York or somewhere's this year! Congratulations.

Mary P.(Golden) Lattanzio
 
Full Name: Manuela Posescu
Home Page: None.
Date and Time: 7/28/2003, 1:27 PM
Comments: J'aime beaucoup opéra, j'aime beaucoup Mme Fleming qui est une immense artiste. Toutes mes félicitations et meilleurs voeux pour son activité artistique.
Je voudrais connaître, s'il est possible, l'auteur et le titre de la chanson qu'elle a interprétée en allemand à la fin de son émission biographique sur Mezzo, traduite en français par "O, bonheur, qui fut le mien ..."
Merci et encore une fois bonne chance !

Manuela Posescu, Docteur ingénieur, Professeur à l'Université Technique de Constructions de Bucarest, Roumanie.
 
Full Name: Jose
Home Page: None.
Date and Time: 7/25/2003, 10:25 PM
Comments: Ms. Fleming, you are such an inspiration to so many and I'm sure you know that. As a senior student in vocal performance, you are a huge inspiration to me; I'm a tenor. Your sensitivity and care for the music you sing is a testament of your dedication to expressive singing. You care about your music and it shows! I am always amazed by your elegeant legato and technical mastery. Thank you for always being generous with your voice.
 
Full Name: Phil Domingues
Home Page: None.
Date and Time: 7/22/2003, 1:33 PM
Comments: I first heard your glorious instrument on a broadcast of the Proms on American television. I love listening to you. You make my day, my month, my year.
Thank you for sharing,
Phil Domingues
West Monroe, LA
 
Full Name: marilyn
Home Page: None.
Date and Time: 7/20/2003, 9:21 AM
Comments: Streetcar at the barbican and Rusalka last monday atcovent garden. The first times I've seen you live. I was spellbound. Thank you for your amazing voice and two brilliant performances. Also congrats on your success at the Brit Awards.
 
Full Name: marilyn
Home Page: None.
Date and Time: 7/20/2003, 8:58 AM
Comments: Streetcar at the Barbican on 27 June and Rusalka last Monday at Covent Garden. The first times I've seen you live. I was spellbound. I saw you at the stage door after rusalka and I could hardly speak. Thank you for two sensational evenings. Can't wait to see you in the UK next year
 
Full Name: Joyce
Home Page: None.
Date and Time: 7/20/2003, 6:05 AM
Comments: Rusalka, last week at Covent Garden in London was superb. I've managed to see you sing in person 3 times and you get better all the time. Thanks for a wonderful evening.
 
Full Name: David Jackino
Home Page: None.
Date and Time: 7/11/2003, 6:02 PM
Comments: WOW!! What a voice - I wish I had listened to more of your performances over at Crane when we were students at SUNY Potsdam.
 
Full Name: Laura Earle, DVM
Home Page: None.
Date and Time: 7/8/2003, 5:55 PM
Comments: Thanks
 
Full Name: Adèle Falk
Home Page: http://groups.msn.com/AdeleFalk
Date and Time: 6/20/2003, 3:28 AM
Comments: I look up to you so much, you have no idea! I'm a sixteen year old classical performer, and you amaze me all the time. Your technique is solid, and your voice is pure. I'm cheering you on!
 
Full Name: Mr. Krispy Kreme
Home Page: None.
Date and Time: 6/19/2003, 4:40 PM
Comments: Dear Miss Fleming:
Thank you very much for sharing your wonderful voice with all of us.You are incredibly talented and your gift of voice is spectacular.Will you ever be going on a tour of signing your albums, so that the public can be able to have some person to person contact with you.I think it is great you built your career with your voice and people buying your albums in appreciation of that talent.So what do you think that the public would like to have you in person, signing their albums they buy from you.Can you arrange it from your music company.It would be so awesome to hold an event like this, maybe even have a money jar, where people could put in whatever they felt like, and all the money goes to funding houses for the homeless or something like that.Do you think you could get your friends to also tour with you.I think that would be awesome for you all to tour the countries and spend time with your fans and make money for people on this planet who are without.I hope your music companies would start doing opera fanfares like country fans do every year.It would be a fantastic draw.
 
Full Name: penny ferguson
Home Page: None.
Date and Time: 6/19/2003, 3:38 PM
Comments: The finest American singer ever...no contest
 
Full Name: Milan Silhan
Home Page: None.
Date and Time: 6/18/2003, 2:41 AM
Comments: Your Web is very nice and very good! Thank you.
 
Full Name: Sid Calkins
Home Page: None.
Date and Time: 6/11/2003, 12:09 PM
Comments: Dear Renee, Many thanks for enriching my retirement years. My trips usually include a couple of your performances; I have attended over 20 since I first saw you in OTELLO at the MET. Your CDs and Videos enrich my time at home in SC. I hope to see more of you on PBS and Ovation. Thanks again, Sid Calkins
 
Full Name: Norman Shakespeare
Home Page: None.
Date and Time: 6/5/2003, 1:29 PM
Comments: Renée.
Your Bel Canto album is, without doubt, the finest operatic compilation and rendition ever;
something that will survive a long, long time.
Congratulations to you, Patrick, St. Lukes, Kristine and the Coro.
Norman.
 
Full Name: Katherine Halley
Home Page: None.
Date and Time: 6/4/2003, 10:39 PM
Comments: Renee-
Hi! I am a 17 year-old aspiring soprano opera singer, and I just want you to know that you give me something to strive for. Even though I have never had the luxuryof being able to hear you in person (or see you for that matter :)) when I hear your voice it reminds me of all the reasons of what I am working for -- even in times of frustration. I am working this summer, before I go to college in the hopes that I will have enough funds to come hear you in Il Traviata. I appreciate your work so much, and I hope that, one day, I get to hear your miraculous voice in person. Good luck!
 
Full Name: Peter Nelson
Home Page: None.
Date and Time: 6/3/2003, 2:28 PM
Comments: Dear Renée,
Hope to see you in Berlin.
Take care
Peter
 
Full Name: Alexander
Home Page: None.
Date and Time: 6/2/2003, 3:53 AM
Comments: At last St.Petersburg saw and heard Rene for the first time yesterday. Tatyana's letter and Oteelo I act duet (with Galouzine unfortunately!). How splendid she was. Her sublime musicality, sweetest voice, splendid vocal technique, good Russian (!), sense of style impressed us a lot. It was a great event for us.
 
Full Name: Chris Rundell
Home Page: None.
Date and Time: 5/26/2003, 5:42 AM
Comments: Renee,
My how time flys. Saw your performance in memory of 9/11 at the Trade Center site and just caught the Memorial Day Tribute in D.C. Wow, and that voice brought back many happy memories. Much simpler times weren't they? Hopefully you remember!?!

I also wanted to thank you personally for your support. As a retired Gulf War veteran, it brings me great pride that people from all walks of life believe in our country and the folks who fight for it. You are truly another bright star to sail by. Would love to catch up and reminice a bit, feel free at the email address above.

Fondest Memories,

Chris
 
Full Name: Michael Irish
Home Page: http://wideopenwest.com/~eirish
Date and Time: 5/23/2003, 6:59 PM
Comments: I have had the pleasure of hearing Renee Fleming in-concert twice, both times in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

The first time was with James Levine and the Met Orchestra, at Hill Auditorium. Renee sang Lulu and Marie from Berg's concert-suites from the operas. Berg has since become my favorite composer.

The second time was a short recital tour Renee did, again at Hill Auditorium, and which was too excellent for words!

Michael Irish
 
Full Name: Melody Bowers
Home Page: None.
Date and Time: 5/23/2003, 3:05 PM
Comments: I just want to say that Renee Fleming has the most incredible opera voice I've ever heard, and I hope that one day my voice can be half as beautiful as hers. I wish I could learn personally from Renee, but I know that's not possible. However, I will continue to strive for the level of perfection Ms. Fleming has reached. Renee, I thank you so much for being a pioneer in the world of opera. Too many people don't know the intense beauty and passion of this genre of music, and you have helped to bring it under the pubic eye. I will always consider you one of my greatest inspirations of all. You have truly encouraged me to continue studying opera when others when others have not been so positive. Thought I do not know you personally, I still feel that your influence is as great as that of my own music teacher. Thank you for encouraging the love of all classical music.
 
Full Name: Daniel Melvin
Home Page: http://www.old-phongraphs.com
Date and Time: 5/12/2003, 11:57 AM
Comments: Love your website. I loved La Traviata in Houston. I traveled there from the Pacific Northwest just for your debut. It was fantastic.
 
Full Name: Coleman H. Casey
Home Page: http://shipmangoodwin.com
Date and Time: 5/12/2003, 7:33 AM
Comments: It was an honor to be seated next to you at the Lomng Ridge School Benefit Concert dinner and to in the front row to hear and see youir magnificent performance. As I told you, I wass particularly moved by your singing of Lean Away, which resonates particularly with me. It would be wonderful if DECCA could see its way clear to doing an All-American program of songs with you. I'm still giving thought to your commencement address at Julliard, although you hardly need ideas from me! If I come up with any suggestion which seems helpful, I'll email and write to you via your agent, although I know that the event is almost upon you! My wife and I were delighted to meet you and charmed by Amelia too. Best wishes--Coleman Casey.
 
Full Name: Caroline Cajot
Home Page: None.
Date and Time: 5/11/2003, 4:35 PM
Comments: I would like to say that i don't really know Mrs Fleming but that i'm going to the concert of hers in "Le Monnaie" on the 30th of june.
My Mum says she is really good and I don't doubt that. I'm lloking forward to the concert!
 
Full Name: Edward
Home Page: None.
Date and Time: 5/10/2003, 12:50 PM
Comments: Hello Reneé Fleming. I am Edward, and I am an opera lover from the UK. Some of my interests include movies and TV, travelling, the sciences and painting (I am currently at night classes studying art and design). I have been to see a number of operas on stage, but some of my favourite operas include Madama Butterfly, Carmen and Nabucco. We need music and theatre, indeed all the arts, to encourage compassion and caring among people, don't you think? And I recently organised a charity morning at my auntie's house and raised a lot of money (about £400) for charity. I did very well, didn't I?
 
Full Name: robert w. hendra
Home Page: None.
Date and Time: 5/3/2003, 12:38 PM
Comments: my favorite singer and oftengo to Paris to hear you sing at Bastille and also heardyou in hyour first Arabella in houston which was my 6oth brithday present to myself. Bob hendra London, Egnalnd.
 
Full Name: Hector Benitez
Home Page: None.
Date and Time: 4/30/2003, 12:29 PM
Comments: I wish to congatulate the owners and operators of this website! This in oasis in the barren desert filled with vipers and scorpions that only know and revel in doing harm without contributing anything worthwhile other than vile and venom. THANK YOU!!!
 
Full Name: Gregory Roberson
Home Page: None.
Date and Time: 4/30/2003, 12:25 PM
Comments: I still get chills remembering your recital in Birmingham with Stephen Blier...the Gershwin section was stupendous!!! Congrats on the Grammy!
 
Full Name: Hector Benitez
Home Page: None.
Date and Time: 4/30/2003, 11:14 AM
Comments: I can't understand this "hate club" that has mushroomed against one of the most beautiful voices and one of the most sesitive artists in the world. Sometimes her approach to the music is not in accord with your expectations, but this is not definitively enough to warrant attacks and abuse.
My best wishes Renee, Hector Benitez
 
Full Name: andy spell
Home Page: None.
Date and Time: 4/28/2003, 1:31 PM
Comments: Dear Miss Fleming,
My wife and I flew to Houston this past weekend to see you in La Traviata. I have had my tickets since last october and could not wait for the weekend. I want you to know that you were absolutly amazing. Act 1 was great and the end of act one was astonishing. Act 2 was great. Act 3 was great and Act 4 blew me away. I believe I saw the ultimate Violetta. Thank-you for your astonishing performance. It was a night to remember. Good luck at the Met. I know they will love it.



 
Full Name: Judy Everett
Home Page: None.
Date and Time: 4/25/2003, 6:49 AM
Comments: I just enjoyed your performance in La Traviata on Easter Sunday in Houston and plan to come to NY to experience it again in November. I took my 20 yr old daughter who is a Music Therapy Major at TWU and is enjoying her vocal studies. It was a memorable evening as we sat with goose bumps enjoying your magnificent voice. Thank you for sharing your gift so graciously with us.
 
Full Name: Marc Jacobi
Home Page: None.
Date and Time: 4/23/2003, 8:46 AM
Comments: Renee

My wife and daughter are driving 5 hours to Houston tonight (Wednesday, April 23)to enjoy you perform. My daughter, Sara, is a tremendous fan of yours. According to her, you have the most incredible voice in music today. She believes she saw you in an Opera in Austria about 3 or 4 years ago and she has raved ever since.

I'm positive that you have thousands of fans across the world, many of them who are appreciative of such a rare talent. However, I wanted to let you know that Sara majored in Music, Concentration in Opera, and graduated with extreme accolades from St. Mary's University in San Antonio, TX. Last year, Sara auditioned for the Met and was recognized as the youngest (and one of the most promising) in the group. Since then, she has sought out and is now working with a mentor in Austin, TX that has done wonders for improving Sara's technique.

As a huge fan (one who performed many of the same pieces you have so as to consistently compare herself to the best), it would be the most phenomenal honor if there was an opportunity for Sara (and her mom, Monica) to meet you after the show tonight. I know this request is of late notice, you may not even receive it prior to the performance. However, if there is a chance you could give her a few minutes of "pep talk" and let her meet "her idol", it would be the most fantastic day of her life.

Should you be available to meet with her after the show and need a way to reach her, you may do any of the following:

Sara's cell phone: 210-313-0244
Monica's cell phone: 817-800-4170
They will be sitting in Section E, Row A, Seats 3 and 4 at the Wortham Theater tonight.
My email address so that I might reach her: fredburgcpa@hotmail.com

Also, here is Sara's email for any future correspondence: smikey80@hotmail.com

Thank you for your devotion to the craft, for your time in considering my request, and for all that you bring to the Art of Music.

Sincerely,

Marc Jacobi
Fredericksburg, Texas



 
Full Name: Howard Read
Home Page: None.
Date and Time: 4/21/2003, 1:29 AM
Comments: Dear Renee,

I love your singing----what a lovely voice. One of my favorites is a video I taped from PBS a few years ago. You, Placido Domingo, Lynn Redgrave, Timothy Dalton, CSO in the "Star Crossed Lovers" concert. In addition to your wonderful voice, your use of eyes and head movement are captivating. You are very beautiful.

Howard Read, Berkeley, CA
 
Full Name: Ed Spillane
Home Page: None.
Date and Time: 4/20/2003, 10:07 PM
Comments: Here is what I posted at the opera-l site; I positively had the most wonderful afternoon of my life today, seeing Renee in La Traviata!:

I saw La Fleming this afternoon and I also was overwhelmed with joy at her
magnificent performance. For some reason there were some boos at the end
of Act One but all of them turned to screams of bravo, etc. at the end of
Acts Two and the incredible acting/singing display Renee turned in in Act
Three. I turned to my six year old at the end of the opera and told her
she just saw the greatest soprano in the world (I told her that; I'm not
trying to start an argument). She said what about God? I didn't know what
to say about that but I'm sure most of those present felt a little in the
presence of some divinity by the end of her incredible performance. I'm
not sure how the Zefferelli sets and different performers will affect La
Fleming's performance at the Met next season but those awaiting her display
next year at the Met have quite a treat coming their way. With Manon next
sunday in houston, the closing concert of the Round Top Festival next
weekend, Alice in Wonderland and A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Houston
and Austin Ballet respectively, it's great living here in Texas!
 
Full Name: Tyrone Hayes
Home Page: None.
Date and Time: 4/18/2003, 10:39 PM
Comments: Hello Ms. Fleming,

Last night I witnessed you perform your first La Traviata. The show was FANTASTIC. Your voice is the most beautiful voice that I have ever heard. After the show, my friends and I waited backstage for you. You signed our playbills and my score of La Traviata. You're such a sweet woman. Thank you so much for being the person that you are. Congratulations on a show well done.

Tyrone Hayes
 
Full Name: Julie Tan
Home Page: None.
Date and Time: 4/18/2003, 1:45 PM
Comments: Excellent site: clearly presented and organized and informative content and lovely images.
 
Full Name: the swampbeast
Home Page: None.
Date and Time: 4/14/2003, 9:07 PM
Comments: dear miss renee,
are you that hauntingly beautiful voice singing with carly simon on her soundtrack to disney's "piglet's big movie"? i hope i found the right renee fleming because i'm gonna rush out and buy some of your albums on my next day off. i know extremely little about classical music but i know an awesome voice when i hear one.
love your new fan, the swampbeast
 
Full Name: alex calafat
Home Page: http://none
Date and Time: 4/14/2003, 8:06 AM
Comments: hello dear renne! I'm a twenty years old pianist and one of my dreams would be to play with you some day in the future!.After I see the documentary of your life I think you are a great singer but I'm sure you are a great person too and this is the most important in life!Congratulations Renne for your career! and please remember a young pianist that dreams to perform some day with you!You are a great inspiration for young people!Best wishes from Mallorca(Spain).
 
Full Name: Adèle Falk
Home Page: http://groups.msn.com/AdeleFalk
Date and Time: 4/10/2003, 2:18 PM
Comments: Hello, Renée! I don't know if I got the chance to tell you or not, but I would just like you to know what an honor it was for me to meet you in Chicago after "Thais"! I hope you enjoy the gift that I gave you after your amazing performance. Your performance was very, very beautiful and my father and I enjoyed it very much.

I am a fifteen year old soprano and I hope to sing and have a wonderful career just like you one day. I don't mean be famous, because thats not what a great singing career is all about. I just mean where I can have a long career and be respected, like you. You are by far my favorite soprano, and in school, we are supposed to write a report about our heros, and I am writing about you! I hope the comming year brings a lot for you as far as music goes!

I keep watching the DVD. Your kids are adorable. If you ever need a baby sitter I'm including my email! *wink* Thanks for being such a wonderful role model!
 
Full Name: Kelly Price
Home Page: http:// kellith@earthlink.net
Date and Time: 4/10/2003, 11:18 AM
Comments: I hope this is the real Rennee Fleming web site and not someone's idea of betraying her. So, I'm taking a chance here.
I'm sure by now everyone and their dog has written you asking for advice about breaking into the business. Please stay with me. I find this a bit embrarssing to be writing you, but I simple have no one else to ask, so I decided I'd go straight to the source.
I am thirty-something, have studied voice since I was fifteen and have started back to school majoring in voice. I honestly do not appear to be as old as I am. People ask me if I'm 23? What a joke. I suppose it is a blessing that I have retained my youthful appearence. I fit right in with all the kids and no one knows my secret. With the fact that I do not appear my age am I over the hill as far as ever being able to perform in an opera? Please be truthful with me so that I might lay this dream to sleep. I would one day love to sing at the Met., but something a little less inspiring would suit me just fine. I simply want to be on stage. Not some home-time production, but the real thing before I'm ready for the nursing home. If you can be of any help at all I would greatly appericate your comments.
 
Full Name: marianne myrsten
Home Page: None.
Date and Time: 4/3/2003, 6:28 AM
Comments: Dear Renèe Fleming!
Beeing one of your many admirers I must thank you
from my heart for your wonderful art in singing with your divine voice! I am a operasinger myself,and I have never been so moved by a singer so much before. Yours sincerely, Marianne Myrsten, Stockholm, Sweden
 
Full Name: Claes, Sweden
Home Page: None.
Date and Time: 4/3/2003, 2:57 AM
Comments:

I don't like opera.
But I like Renée Fleming.

 
Full Name: VIRGINIA ADELFA ELONA
Home Page: None.
Date and Time: 4/1/2003, 8:06 AM
Comments: DEAR RENNE,

GREETINGS AND CONGRADULATIONS !, GOOD LUCK AND GOOD HEALTH.

BEST WISHES,
VIRGINIA ADELFA ELONA
 
Full Name: Mr Gabriel McLoughlin
Home Page: None.
Date and Time: 3/28/2003, 5:44 AM
Comments: Your wonderful singing voice is sheer joy to listen to. I went to London's Covent Garden to hear you in person and I was absolutely carried away. Your voice is truly a God-given instrument.
Take good care of it.I hope to hear you soon again.
 
Full Name: Melina Gerges
Home Page: None.
Date and Time: 3/25/2003, 12:33 PM
Comments: What an inspiration
 
Full Name: Louis D Inabnitt jr
Home Page: http://www.christimage.com
Date and Time: 3/23/2003, 4:07 PM
Comments: I am still in Heaven after watching your performance. I have no Idea who could have such power to capture then Share your finely tuned Treasure. Someone understood and Loved you with their Understanding. You perform as I feel. I suppose that there just must be a giver and a receiver, when I see my Father I will be sure to give Thanks to Him for You, and ask to meet the composer that you were Blessed with that we may rejoice together in Thanksgiving
 
Full Name: ivana galic
Home Page: None.
Date and Time: 3/21/2003, 5:52 AM
Comments: dear rennee,
as a young singer i have a dream like every singer who loves singing from the bottom of the heart. that is the point of singing.when i was listening you singing rusalka, one of my favourite parts, i heard you singing from the bottom of your heart. i was crying.
 
Full Name: kelly price
Home Page: http://earthlink.net
Date and Time: 3/20/2003, 5:17 PM
Comments: I am trying to send you an e-mail and I'm not to good with these stupid computers.
 
Full Name: Laurence Kanen
Home Page: None.
Date and Time: 3/16/2003, 4:59 PM
Comments: Several times last week I listened to 'Vier letzte Lieder' and other songs of Richard Strauss, sung by Renee Fleming (and other singers like Jessye Norman, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Cheryl Studer and Kiri te Kanawa). Renee's voice and expression are marvellous, superb, as are Strauss' compositions!
 
Full Name: Sam Grabow
Home Page: None.
Date and Time: 3/15/2003, 5:53 PM
Comments: I just saw your performance with the Milwaukee Symphony. It was the most wonderful concert I have ever been to. I am currently a freshman at the UW-MIlwaukee campus, studying vocal performance and instrumental education. After the concert I told one of my Professor's (Valerie Errante) that I could die happy now.

You are a joy to listen to and I feel so lucky to have had the chance to hear you sing live. Thank you so much.
 
Full Name: Leigh Kubiak
Home Page: None.
Date and Time: 3/15/2003, 12:55 PM
Comments: I recently bought the Lee Ritenour/Dave Grusin CD called "Two Worlds", on which Ms. Fleming sings. I have worked in music, in one venue or another, for the majority of my life and now, at 47, have NEVER heard a vocalist whose voice has an affect that even VAGUELY approaches the same effect on me as hers does. Unlike the true opera afficianado
most of us know the Monserrate Caballe's and the
Pavarotti's of the world but only due to my love of great jazz guitar have I come to know and stand
deeply in awe of Ms. Fleming's seemingly effort-
less, unashamedly POWERFUL voice. With the force of a runaway freight train yet with the sensual ease of liquid pearls, Ms. Fleming so easily adds two or three colours to the rainbow, that did not exist before her. Perhaps more, I envy the musici-
ans such as Ritenous and Grusin, who get to work with her. It is truly to be in the company of genius.


In sheer awe,


L. Kubiak
 
Full Name: jennifer
Home Page: http://furststaff.com
Date and Time: 3/14/2003, 7:07 PM
Comments: Ms. Fleming:
What an enjoyable evening in Milwaukee! I had put such high expectations on the evening that I began to worry there was no way those expectations would be matched. Not only were they matched...they were exceeded. It was such a pleasure to meet you at the "meet & greet" session at the Pfister...definitely worth the drive from Chicago!!! You are so gracious, beautiful and generous. Thank you, again, for sharing your amazing talent with the world. Thais was fabulous and I look forward to many future performances. Best wishes! Jen
 
Full Name: John-Francis Keys
Home Page: None.
Date and Time: 3/10/2003, 3:28 PM
Comments: I have seen Renée Fleming in Paris twice now. Once in Der Rosenkavelier and the other in Rusalka. Both performances were wonderful. I am currently sitting here in agony waiting for a kidney stone to appear and the only thing that keeps me sane is listing to your records. Your voice is a joy and brings a light into this troubled and often dreary world of today. God Bless you and thank you sincerely for giving us such a joy.

John-Francis
 
Full Name: David Gray
Home Page: None.
Date and Time: 3/8/2003, 2:42 PM
Comments: Reneé what an incredible night in Rochester. None of us wanted it to end. Great seeing you. I am glad I flew up for this. Can't wait to see your next performance. Let me know how you would like me to send the pictures with everyone. I have one of Lois that she would probably want cropped. But other than that they are great pics.
cya,
Dave G .
 
Full Name: Ellen
Home Page: None.
Date and Time: 3/8/2003, 8:35 AM
Comments: Dear Renee,Your concert last night (in Rochester) was so wonderful and inspiring, and I was so happy for you that you got such a home welcoming reception! Your wardrobe was just my style as well :)!! I would loved to have met you! I read your biographical info. in the paper last Sunday, and I found the details of your life fascinating. I too was a very shy (only) child; I went into nursing rather than follow my heart as a singer. I had ability, but not the ego and drive. I'm an "older" singer now, and am singing as a cantorial soloist, and I have a singing position at Salem Church, your own stomping ground I hear. So vocal life is possible after youth, and it would be so educational if local singers could benefit from a workshop with you as well, if ever you have time!!!
BEST WISHES!
 
Full Name: Bernard Holcomb
Home Page: None.
Date and Time: 3/8/2003, 1:33 AM
Comments: Oh my goodness! I just heard Renee in Rochester and she was amazing. Not only does she have an amazing voice, but she is a real person. On top of that she is just so nice. I'm proud to be a student at Eastman and to be studying with the teacher who taught her when she was here, Mr. John Maloy.
 
Full Name: John-Francis Keys
Home Page: None.
Date and Time: 2/28/2003, 3:52 PM
Comments: Hi

I am British and live in France. I am so glad I have found this website. I went to see Renée in Rusalka in Paris and I was so overwhelmed but the beauty of her voice and the reality of her performance. I did not for one moment thing "Oh I am seeing Renée Fleming". What I saw and heard was this wonder nymph who had so sadly fallen in love with a mere mortel. It was so convincing - I just cried.

Thank you Renée for making this sad world so much lovelier.

John-Francis
Paris
PS When are you coming back to Europe?
 
Full Name: Gabriel Perez
Home Page: None.
Date and Time: 2/28/2003, 8:21 AM
Comments: Thank you for being such a wonderful artist committed to beauty.
 
Full Name: Maggie Keller
Home Page: None.
Date and Time: 2/26/2003, 2:33 PM
Comments: I heard Renee many moons ago at the Spoleto Arts Festival and she was wonderous. I am grateful to be able to keep hearing that voice. Many wishes of abundance and joy to you!
 
Full Name: Julien AUBARD
Home Page: None.
Date and Time: 2/25/2003, 7:18 AM
Comments: I just want to thank Renée Fleming for so many sumptuous and brilliant moments.
 
Full Name: joshua van dyne
Home Page: None.
Date and Time: 2/24/2003, 8:22 PM
Comments: CONGRATS! on your second grammy award. it was a much deserved honor. is there any plan to tackle any other germanic strus roles (ariadne, chrysantemus...?)
with love
 
Full Name: Lora Myers
Home Page: None.
Date and Time: 2/24/2003, 1:45 PM
Comments: I am a classical voice major,and Renee is definitely an inspiration to me. She's unbelievable!
 
Full Name: Melissa Sagmoe
Home Page: None.
Date and Time: 2/24/2003, 8:37 AM
Comments: Incredible voice!! I can only dream of singing like that!! Great web site! Thanks.
 
Full Name: Barbara Joabson
Home Page: None.
Date and Time: 2/24/2003, 2:21 AM
Comments: Congrats on winning the Grammy. It was such a thrill to be your handmaiden in "Thais". I will always treasure the memories. You are fabulous!

Barbara, The pate-maker
 
Full Name: sam mallin
Home Page: None.
Date and Time: 2/22/2003, 1:24 AM
Comments: when will you honor us with a cd of some of
smericas great song writers. I know your selection will be impeccable.
 
Full Name: Katherine Jones
Home Page: None.
Date and Time: 2/16/2003, 8:09 PM
Comments: Renee,

I am a 21 year old, junior coloratura soprano at the University of Oklahoma. I am a huge fan of your work and I would like to be an apprentice of yours once I graduate. I would love to sing for you sometime or just meet you to ask you questions about our craft. I am still learnig and honing my skills. Please contact me at (405)307-0187 or email me at JessKat@ou.edu. Thanks


Sincerely,

Katherine Jones
 
Full Name: Elisabeth Sundøy
Home Page: None.
Date and Time: 2/15/2003, 2:13 PM
Comments: When do you come to sing for us in Norway?!!
 
Full Name: Ann T Reed
Home Page: None.
Date and Time: 2/15/2003, 9:48 AM
Comments: I just got your new CD with Bryn. You put a song in my heart and that is so very much needed in this crazy world.
 
Full Name: Jeffri Bantz
Home Page: None.
Date and Time: 2/14/2003, 9:29 PM
Comments: Dear Renee,
Happy Birthday! I cannot get enough of your consummate artistry! Thank you for finally bringing back to singing what has been missing for so many years! The unrivaled combination of your technique, integrity to style and exquisitly beautiful instrument have certainly put you on a pedestal above all others - brought back a standard we have long missed. Especially brilliant is your recording "I Want Magic"! - so well sung and so cleverly conceived. I am eagerly anticipating your concert here in Fort Lauderdale on March 3rd. Thank you for the incredible joy you give to your fans, as well as the gift you have given the music world at large.
 
Full Name: Joshua Van Dyne
Home Page: None.
Date and Time: 2/14/2003, 4:39 PM
Comments: happy birthday, to the 'casta diva' of the 'bel canto'
with fond admiration and devotion
 
Full Name: Shirley Joyal - (L.A. Opera Shop)
Home Page: None.
Date and Time: 2/14/2003, 12:17 PM
Comments: Dear Renee,
I would like to wish you a Happy Birthday. Thank you for Thais in Chicago on 12/21/02. I'm looking forward to seeing you in La Traviata in Houston on 4/29/03.
Happy Valentine's Day! What a wonderful Valentine you were for your parents!
Love, Shirley
 
Full Name: Jack Bollinger
Home Page: None.
Date and Time: 2/12/2003, 4:44 PM
Comments: Having just read Ann Patchett's "Bel Canto" have had difficulty not thinking about Ms. Fleming in a movie or far better an opera from the book. Many hundreds or, I hope, thousands of others have undoubtedly thought the same. Please someone make it so.
 
Full Name: Harold Egan
Home Page: None.
Date and Time: 2/10/2003, 9:40 AM
Comments: I heard you sing on the Arts Channel last night. Although I was never a big fan of opera, I have always loved the classics. As my tastes are beginning to mature even further, I was taken by your beautiful voice. It's like gold! I never quite liked opera because I thought it made classic music sound too shrill. But listening to classic music sung well has made me take a second look at this fine art. I intend to buy a selection of your recordings and listen to what I have been missing over the years. If time permits, I hope to have the opportunity of listening to you perform live over the present season.
Thank you.
 
Full Name: M. Santana
Home Page: None.
Date and Time: 2/9/2003, 7:33 PM
Comments: One of the greatest singers of our age! Il Pirata on the Met broadcast was stunning!
 
Full Name: Eileen McClenachan
Home Page: None.
Date and Time: 2/8/2003, 8:52 PM
Comments: February 8, 2003

My husband and I were swept away by this afternoon's performance in IL PIRATA ... brava! Will look forward to hearing you again. (We,too, are from Pennsylvania ... and Happy Valentine's Day Birthday!)
Warm regards and blessings.
 
Full Name: John Hewett
Home Page: http://DallasSymphony.com
Date and Time: 2/7/2003, 9:19 PM
Comments: We are so excited about having you here for our season-opening Gala September 6! We're already getting deluged with inquiries about tickets!
 
Full Name: Angela
Home Page: http://www.angelaburkart.com
Date and Time: 2/7/2003, 4:35 PM
Comments: Renee - you are an amazing singer! Your CD recordings are perfection, and what great repertoire choices. I'm a 28-year old singer trying to figure out how to dazzle at auditions, and finding it so difficult and tiring to succeed -- so kudos to you for your great success and the work you must have had to put in.
Regards,
Angela
 
Full Name: Lynne Milner
Home Page: None.
Date and Time: 2/5/2003, 10:31 AM
Comments: your songs lift my suffering heart from my pain and allows my spirits to fly for a minute or two. love all your songs
 
Full Name: Phoebe Rusch
Home Page: None.
Date and Time: 2/5/2003, 9:26 AM
Comments: I can't wait for your cd with Bryn Terfel! Two of my most, most, most favorite voices! Yay! Hip hip hazzah!
 
Full Name: Phoebe Rusch
Home Page: None.
Date and Time: 2/5/2003, 9:19 AM
Comments: In the 2001-02 Lyric season, I was in the children's chorus of Otello. Working with Ms. Fleming was one of the best experiences of my life, as I have always idolized her. She is not only a fabulous singer, but an amiable and kind person. The conductor would alwats tell us not to bother her, but she would talk to us. She is truly an inspiration. (And she was awesome in Thais!)
 
Full Name: Sepideh
Home Page: None.
Date and Time: 2/3/2003, 10:08 PM
Comments: I just want to thank you so much for sharing your unbelievable voice. When I listen to your recordings, I feel like they just give me this undescribable high. I'm a 17 year old lyric soprano, I began my vocal studies not too long ago, but I have made an enormous amount of progress and I am applying to Conservatories around the US. I really thank you inspiring me, your voice brings so much to me. If you ever have the time, I would love to get some advice from you :) Thanks Ms. Fleming...you're truely amazing!
 
Full Name: thomas aus old germany
Home Page: None.
Date and Time: 2/3/2003, 2:01 PM
Comments: Liebe Fr. Fleming,
ich habe eben Mariettas Lied in einer wunderschönen Aufnahme von Ihnen gehört - ich bin total begeistert von Ihrer herrlich natürlichen Stimme und der faszinierenden Interpretation!
Danke, danke, danke!!!!!!
 
Full Name: Karen Gaskins
Home Page: None.
Date and Time: 2/3/2003, 12:14 PM
Comments: I just want to say, go girl! I've been listening to you since your I want magic album and I sing a lot of the songs you sang. But I like your voice better on the Trees on the mountain. Your voice is heavier than mine so it has more power and I liked the interpretation. I would love to haer your violetta. I'm a lyric coloratura and it tends to be more ringy--clear and sensuous for a small instrument but I also like the bigger instruments like your voice and Marilyn Horne, too along with Beverly Sills and Anna Moffo and the others. Do you have good tips or are you going to record La Traviata soon? I'm always looking for fresh and new ideas of how to interpret character especially characters that are larger than life. Karen Gaskins and Good Luck!
 
Full Name: Adèle
Home Page: http://groups.msn.com/AdeleFalk
Date and Time: 2/1/2003, 1:35 PM
Comments: Hey! I saw you in Thais! You where amazing! It was very beautiful, and I just thought you should know! Thank you!
 
Full Name: Will Berger
Home Page: None.
Date and Time: 1/22/2003, 1:40 AM
Comments: I was first drawn to Ms. Fleming because of the NPT special, "Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero." Even more than her singing was the integrity and authenticity of her being that came through everything she said. Now that I'm buying every CD I can find of hers that sense of self shows in everything she sings. I'm an amateur accompanist as well as a Presbyterian pastor who loves the human voice. Her voice says more than I could say in a thousand sermons. Thank you.
 
Full Name: Adèle
Home Page: http://groups.msn.com/AdeleFalk
Date and Time: 1/18/2003, 9:12 PM
Comments: Wow, it has been ages since I have been here and signed this thing. I can't wait till your new CD comes out! I also can't wait for next weekend! I get to see you in Thais!! YAYYYYYY!!!!! *happy bounces*

Oh guess what? I was watching your DVD again and I was just thinking how much you have improved since all those other recordings. I hope you can record some of those bel canto roles, the whole opera sometime. That would be great!! Just a thought. Cya
 
Full Name: Francine
Home Page: None.
Date and Time: 1/17/2003, 2:51 PM
Comments: Renée,
I was fortunate to attend Thäis at the Lyric two weeks ago, and felt compelled to tell you how beautiful it was. I am currently pursuing an under-grad degree in vocal performance, and your performance truly inspired me. You do something which I am learning to put into my singing, and which I very much admire--you put yourself into the music and give of yourself so greatly. Music becomes so much more with that dimension, even when the character is well portrayed, as Thäis was. I really believe that music is meant to be created with the circumstances of the characters as well as the uniqueness that only comes from that kind of sharing of oneself. This kind of sharing is often risky, difficult and downright frightening, but when it is there, a special kind of connection is made between the performer(s) and the audience: one of honest humanity. This is one core reason why I sing--I want to be as honest and real as I can be. I truly felt your presence- the human Renée- even though I don't know you personally. I wanted to let you know how much that meant to me, and want to encourage you to keep it up! That kind of performance not only touches an audience, but it makes the singer dig deep down and find the most honest, beautiful,and sometimes ugly parts of themselves that can change and grow with time. It takes great courage to do this kind of soul-searching, which you must do in some way to sing as honestly and beautifully as you do. Thank you for sharing yourself and your music. You've inspired me to work even harder at my music for my next recital!
Keep singing and sharing,
Best regards,
Francine
 
Full Name: SwEeTiE - -> ToRi
Home Page: None.
Date and Time: 1/17/2003, 9:19 AM
Comments: Hi Renée!! I love your music!! I sing myself. I been taking vocal lessons for some time now. I love listening to your CD's. You have a lovely voice and someday I hope to sing like you, or with you would be the best thing ever!! It wouldnt be great if you could write me back!!
 
Full Name: PERRIN
Home Page: http://www.jacquesperrin.com
Date and Time: 1/16/2003, 3:48 PM
Comments: Permettez moi de vous souhaiter une merveilleuse année 2003 pleine de belles choses de la vie.
Merci pour votre magnifique "Ladies and Gentlemen Miss Renée" en DVD.
J'espère qu'il y en aura de nombreux autres. Dans l'attente de vous découvrir dans "Capriccio" à l'Opéra Garnier,mille mercis du bonheur que votre voix nous apporte et nous aide dans des moments difficiles.
Je vous embrasse.
PS: serait'il possible de recevoir une photo dédicacée.
Jacques Perrin
5, avenue Gabriel