It's part of a set now known as Four Last Songs, a song cycle marked by an awareness and acceptance of death. Renee Fleming is a world-famous soprano known for her Strauss repertoire, and her ...

Why is it that every generation of sopranos seems to perform Strauss’ “Four Last Songs” more slowly than the last? After an exciting “Fruehling” and “September,” Renee Fleming glides ...

On a recent evening, Renée Fleming joined the Fairfax Symphony ... Center honoree has recorded Richard Strauss’s “Four Last Songs” twice, and she has performed them countless times.

(Though it helps when that half hour involves Strauss’s blockbuster Four Last Songs.) Reports of Fleming’s retirement – touted since 2017, when she sang her last Rosenkavalier at the Met ...

Thursday, Renee Fleming and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra ... accompaniment contrasted with the richly orchestrated “Four Last Songs.” On these pieces, which Strauss wrote toward the end ...

who turned 65 last month. The tribute featured performances of signature Fleming pieces, highlighted by a bravura “Song to the Moon” performed by a soprano quartet of Julia Bullock ...