Renée Fleming sings Strauss

Date & Time

Wed, Mar 5, 2025, 19:30

Venue

It always feels good to make music with friends – and when that friend is soprano Renée Fleming, you just know that something extra-special is on the cards. No introduction is required for one of the LPO’s best-loved guests, the American soprano whose personality lights up the world’s greatest stages and whose voice has been compared to double cream. ‘Unforgettable’ was how one critic described her 2022 Gala with the LPO, and tonight she returns to sing Richard Strauss’s radiant... Read full text

Keywords: Vocal Music

Info & Ticket (lpo.org.uk)

Musicians

Thomas Guggeis	Conductor
Renée Fleming	Soprano

Program

Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde	Richard Wagner
Four Last Songs	Richard Strauss
Overture and Venusberg Music from Tannhäuser	Richard Wagner
Prelude to Act I of Lohengrin	Richard Wagner
Overture, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg	Richard Wagner

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