
In 1991, she made her Metropolitan Opera debut. She followed this with debuts at the New York City Opera and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

Her first major break came in 1988 when she sang the Countess in The Marriage of Figaro at the Houston Grand Opera. She studied at the Crane School of Music at the State University of New York where she flirted with the idea of becoming a jazz singer before continuing her studies at New York's Juilliard. She enjoyed a happy suburban childhood, starting singing lessons at an early age with her singing-teacher parents.

Renée was born on February 14th 1959 in Indiana, Pennsylvania, and grew up in Rochester, New York. Renée Fleming is a celebrated American soprano whose signature roles include the Countess Almaviva in Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, and Violetta in Verdi's La Traviata.
