I’ll plant my own tree
Richard Strauss’ “Bucolic Tragedy in One Act” Daphne is one of his most beautiful and most frustrating works.
Renée Fleming
171 pieces since 2005 — in 36 roles, at 19 companies, most often at Metropolitan Opera.
171
pieces
36
roles
19
companies
22
years
By role
Marschallin 5
Rodelinda 4
Violetta 4
Armida 3
Countess 3
Thaïs 3
Daphne 3
Lucrezia Borgia 3
Ariadne 2
Blanche DuBois 2
Clarissa Vaughan 2
Arabella 2
Margaret Johnson 2
Manon 2
Rusalka 2
Pat Nixon 2
Nettie 1
Tatyana 1
Rosina 1
Sandrina 1
Susannah 1
Louise 1
unknown 1
Virginia Woolf 1
Marguerite 1
Alaide 1
La Folie 1
intermission commentatress 1
Hanna Glawari 1
Georgia O'Keeffe 1
Gabriel/Eva 1
Ellen 1
Countess; Thäis 1
Countess Rosina 1
Countess Madeleine 1
Anna 1
By company
Metropolitan Opera 31
Lyric Opera of Chicago 2
Boston Symphony Orchestra 2
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra 1
Wolf Trap 1
Washington National Opera 1
San Francisco Opera 1
Royal Opera House 1
Richard Tucker Gala 1
Orchestre de Paris 1
Opera Orchestra of New York 1
Opéra de Paris 1
National Symphony Orchestra 1
Los Angeles Opera 1
LA Opera 1
Imperial Theater 1
Houston Grand Opera 1
Festspielhaus Baden-Baden 1
Carnegie Hall 1
3 pieces as Daphne — stats above show all coverage for Renée Fleming.
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The constant nymph
The old adage “the third time’s the charm” proved to be the case with me and Daphne, Richard Strauss’s ravishing bukolische Tragödie, when I recently heard it performed by Franz Welser-Möst and the Cleveland Orchestra.
Blow a kiss, take a bough
Richard Strauss’s many one-act operas make excellent concert programs, both for their length (usually under two hours) and the primary place each gives the orchestration, a specialty where Strauss’s brilliance seldom deserted him.
I’ll take the fall
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