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Greatest Moments at the Met

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Release Date: January 13, 2023

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Renee Fleming on How Russia’s War in Ukraine Has Impacted Classical Music | GZERO World
1 Mozart: LE NOZZE DI FIGARO K.492 / Act III: “E Susanna non vien  
2 Act III: … Dove sono i bei momenti”  
3 Act III: “Cosa mi narri!”  
4 Act III: “Sull’aria… Che soave zeffiretto”  
5 Verdi: OTELLO / Act IV: “Era più calmo?”  
6 Act IV: “Piangea cantando” (Willow Song)  
7 Act IV: “Ave Maria, piena di grazia”  
8 Strauss: ARABELLA Op.79 / Act III: “Das war sehr gut, Mandryka”  
9 Britten: PETER GRIMES Op.33 Act III: “Embroidery in childhood was a luxury of idleness”  
10 Charpentier: LOUISE / Act III: “Depuis le jour”  
11 Gounod: FAUST / Act IV: “Alerte! Alerte! ou vous êtes perdus!”  
12 Dvorák: RUSALKA Op.114 / Act I: “Mesícku na nebi hlubokém”  
13 Massenet: MANON / Act III: “Obéissons quand leur voix appelle”  
14 Act III: “Toi! Vous!”  
15 Act III: “N’est-ce plus ma main que cette main presse”  
16 Floyd: SUSANNAH / Act I: “Ain’t it a pretty night!”  
17 Act II: “That’s mighty pretty singin’, Susannah”  
18 Mozart: DON GIOVANNI K.527 / Act II: “Crudele? Ah no, mio bene!  
19 Bellini: IL PIRATA / Act II: “Col sorriso d’innocenza”  
20 Verdi: LA TRAVIATA / Act II: “Ah! Dite alla giovine”  
21 Act II: “Imponete – Non amarlo ditegli”  
22 Handel: RODELINDA HWV 19 / Act III: “Mio caro bene”  
23 Tchaikovsky: EUGENE ONEGIN / Act III: “O! Kak mnye tyazhelo!”  
24 Act III: “Onegin! Ya togda molozhe”  
25 Massenet: THAÏS / Act II: “Ah je suis seule …  
26 Act II: … Dis-moi que je suis belle”  
27 Rossini: ARMIDA / Act III: “Dove son io? … Fuggi!”  
28 Act III: “È ver… gode quest’anima”  
29 Lehár: THE MERRY WIDOW / Act II: “Hello, here’s a soldier bold”  
30 Korngold: DIE TOTE STADT / Act I: “Glück, das mir verblieb” (Marietta’s Lied)  
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Decca Classics is proud to announce Renée Fleming – Greatest Moments at the Met. The release showcases her stellar career at the Metropolitan Opera House to date, making some of the great soprano's most iconic performances at The Met available on CD and digital audio for the first time ever. Hearing these live performances captures the excitement felt in the house as they were happening in real time, making an indispensable addition to her many studio recordings.

This announcement follows news of Fleming’s nomination last week for a 2023 Grammy Award for Best Classical Solo Vocal Album, for her previous Decca release Voice of Nature: the Anthropocene, and it comes as Fleming takes the stage at the Met again tonight (November 22) in the star-studded world premiere production of Kevin Puts's opera The Hours. 

Fleming describes The Met as “my musical home, the theater where I feel welcome amongst friends – backstage, onstage, and in the audience.” The beginning of Fleming’s Met career is famous: in 1991 she stepped in at the last minute as the Countess in Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro, her surprise debut receiving instant acclaim. It launched a remarkable artistic relationship, with Fleming singing  beloved operas from the standard repertoire, as well as championing operas never before heard at the house. She has sung more than 250 performances there, more than at any other opera house in the world, and the tally continues to grow.

  • Renee Fleming visits Charlotte to perform with the Symphony, and promote art in mental health care / 90.7WFAE
    Posted At: September 19, 2023 12:00 AM
    One of the most beloved and celebrated singers of our time, soprano Renée Fleming is renowned for her sumptuous voice, consummate artistry, and compelling stage presence. Awarded America's highest honor for an individual artist, the National Medal of Arts, as well as four Grammy awards, she brought her voice to a vast new audience in 2014, as the first classical artist ever to sing “The Star-Spangled Banner...
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  • Renee Fleming w/Inon Barnatan in recital, outdoes three big concertos at the Aspen Music Festival / The Aspen Times
    Posted At: July 18, 2023 12:00 AM
    One of the most beloved and celebrated singers of our time, soprano Renée Fleming is renowned for her sumptuous voice, consummate artistry, and compelling stage presence. Awarded America's highest honor for an individual artist, the National Medal of Arts, as well as four Grammy awards, she brought her voice to a vast new audience in 2014, as the first classical artist ever to sing “The Star-Spangled Banner...
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  • NPR's 'Fresh Air' reviews Renee Fleming's 'Greatest Moments at the Met'
    Posted At: May 24, 2023 12:00 AM
    Decca Classics released Renée Fleming – Greatest Moments at the Met earlier this year. The release showcases her stellar career at the Metropolitan Opera House to date, making some of the great soprano's most iconic performances at The Met available on CD and digital audio for the first time ever. Hearing these live performances captures the excitement felt in the house as they were happening in real time, ...
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  • Renee Fleming - Greatest Moments at the MET is the Classical 91.5WXXI - CD Spotlight
    Posted At: February 17, 2023 12:00 AM
    In January, Decca Classics released Renée Fleming – Greatest Moments at the Met. The release showcases her stellar career at the Metropolitan Opera House to date, making some of the great soprano's most iconic performances at The Met available on CD and digital audio for the first time ever. Hearing these live performances captures the excitement felt in the house as they were happening in real time, making...
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  • Indiana's Renee Fleming wins fifth GRAMMY for 'Nature' album / The Indiana Gazette
    Posted At: February 8, 2023 12:00 AM
    The Indiana Gazette's PATRICK CLOONAN writes…..In a 2021 interview with Gazette contributor Rex Rutkoski, opera star Renée Fleming welcomed the opportunity of sharing Indiana’s “native daughter” status with “native son” Jimmy Stewart. “I loved visiting Indiana in 2013, and I think Jimmy Stewart typifies the warmth I experienced there,” Fleming said, reminiscing from her home in the Washington, D.C., suburbs...
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  • Renee Fleming on how Russia's war in Ukraine has impacted classical music / GZERO
    Posted At: January 17, 2023 12:00 AM
    One of the most beloved and celebrated singers of our time, soprano Renée Fleming is renowned for her sumptuous voice, consummate artistry, and compelling stage presence. Awarded America's highest honor for an individual artist, the National Medal of Arts, as well as four Grammy awards, she brought her voice to a vast new audience in 2014, as the first classical artist ever to sing “The Star-Spangled Banner...
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  • World Economic Forum to present Renee Fleming with Crystal Award / OPERAWIRE
    Posted At: January 12, 2023 12:00 AM
    OPERAWIRE's Francisco Salazar writes…The World Economic Forum ?has announced Renée Fleming as one of the winners of this year’s Crystal Award. In its 29th year, the Crystal Award honors exceptional artists and cultural leaders whose important contributions to society have made a tangible impact on improving the state of the world and who best represent the attitude of openness and cooperation that is the “s...
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  • Renee Fleming to tour great musical cities In new IMAX series / Forbes
    Posted At: September 17, 2022 12:00 AM
    A new series of IMAX films, with tours of great musical cities led by Grammy-winning soprano Renee Fleming, will kick off tomorrow.Forbes - Jane Levere writes…Opera singer Renee Fleming’s Cities That Sing - Paris will premiere globally at IMAX theaters September 18. Renée Fleming’s Cities That Sing - Venice will premiere in coming months, as will encore screenings of her Paris film. Fleming also will join a...
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  • Renee Fleming to receive George Peabody Medal at 2021 Peabody Conservatory graduation / The Peabody Post
    Posted At: March 22, 2021 12:00 AM

    The Peabody Post WRITES......Renée Fleming, an arts leader and advocate and one of the most acclaimed singers of our time, will address the graduates and receive the George Peabody Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Music in America during the Peabody Conservatory's 2021 Graduation ceremony, which will be held online on Wednesday, May 26. Applauded the world over in concert halls, opera ho...
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  • It's Renee Fleming Week at the Metropolitan Opera / Playbill
    Posted At: January 11, 2021 12:00 AM

    Playbill's RYAN MCPHEE writes.....The Metropolitan Opera pays tribute to one of its biggest contemporary stars, soprano Renée Fleming, this week with free streams of seven of her signature roles. The lineup is the latest in the New York City company's Nightly Met Streams series. The week kicks off with her turn as the Countess Almaviva in Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro; later titles inclu...
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  • Playbill Q&A's with Renee Fleming
    Posted At: December 29, 2020 12:00 AM

    As the temporary shutdown of Broadway and theatres around the world continues, Playbill is reaching out to artists to see how they are physically and creatively responding to a changed world. ANDREW GANS checks in with… Grammy-Winning Opera Star and Carousel Tony Nominee Renée Fleming. The world-renowned artist will be seen December 31 on the PBS special United in Song: Celebrating the Resi...
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  • Listen Labor Day weekend to Colorado Public Radio for all the hits, favorites and 'must hear' pieces in classical music - 100 straight hours!
    Posted At: September 2, 2020 12:00 AM

    Listen this weekend starting Thursday at 2 p.m. for all the hits, favorites and "must hear" pieces in classical music. It's one essential classic after another for over 100 straight hours!  What Makes a Classic "Essential"? CPR Classical Music Director Jeff Zumfelde works to create just the right mix of music to get your heart relaxing, reveling, or revving this holiday weekend. And it's all...
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  • Renee Fleming gives npr: Bullseye some pretty solid singing tips
    Posted At: November 1, 2019 12:00 AM

    Known as "America's Diva," Renée Fleming has performed in venues all over the world, singing in acclaimed productions of operas composed by Mozart, Puccini, Verdi, Dvorak and more. If you're no expert in the world of cabelettas, cavatinas and coloraturas, fear not! Renée has mastered jazz, country and just about every other music genre as well. She grew up in a musical household...
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  • Renee Fleming presents her first full-length Lieder album in almost two decades / WFMT: Featured New Release
    Posted At: July 6, 2019 12:00 AM

    Four-time Grammy winning soprano Renée Fleming presents her first full-length Lieder album in almost two decades. The new album, Lieder, features songs by Brahms, Schumann, and Mahler, each of whom bring Romantic poetry to life through exquisite word-setting and sublime melody. Fleming is joined by Christian Thielemann and the Munich Philharmonic in a performance of Mahler's Rückert Lieder. F...
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  • Tanglewood marks one of the most anticipated events of the 2019 music season / Live 95.9
    Posted At: June 27, 2019 12:00 AM

    This Friday, June 28, at 9 a.m., Tanglewood marks one of the most anticipated events of the 2019 music season, the official opening weekend of the four-building Linde Center for Music and Learning and Tanglewood Learning Institute programs, with a public ribbon-cutting ceremony that will include speeches from a cross-section of the administration, builders, and funders who made the new complex and progra...
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  • Renee Fleming to star in L.A. Opera's upcoming; The Light in the Piazza / Playbill
    Posted At: January 28, 2019 12:00 AM

    After a star turn as Margaret Johnson in The Light in the Piazza in London, Renée Fleming will headline the musical stateside. Daniel Evans' production, which premieres at Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall in June, is on the roster for L.A. Opera's newly announced 2019–2020 season. Performances will run October 12–20. Dove Cameron, recently Off-Broadway in the musical adaptati...
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  • Renee Fleming will mentor 10 singers and collaborative pianists during 'SongStudio' at Carnegie Hall / OPERAWIRE
    Posted At: January 13, 2019 12:00 AM

    Legendary soprano Renée Fleming is set to present SongStudio at Carnegie Hall between Jan. 21-26, 2019. The program is aimed at exploring the future of the voice recital and will see Fleming mentoring 10 young singers and 10 collaborative pianists. Fleming stated. "I fell in love with song literature through Marilyn Horne. I'm grateful that she devoted her artistry and agency to this art...
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  • Renee Fleming - Broadway is the IPR: Featured Classical New Release
    Posted At: September 28, 2018 12:00 AM

    Renée Fleming was recently nominated for a Tony award for her performance in the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical "Carousel." She has a new album of Broadway songs from the 1920s to the present day. In the album's press release, Fleming says, "This repertoire is so rich, and the sheer quality of the music is so high that it's been a joy to record these songs." The album includes music of ...
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  • Renee Fleming, set to open the 2018-19 Pittsburgh Symphony season, speaks with WQED
    Posted At: September 14, 2018 12:00 AM

    Superstar Soprano Renee Fleming opens the season for the Pittsburgh Symphony and Manfred Honeck on Saturday September 15th. She talked about her program for "A Voyage at Sea: A Passage to the Mediterranean" with WQED-FM's Jim Cunningham.  Renee remembers visiting her Grandmother in Indiana, PA; all her Western Pennsylvania family ties; her new Broadway cd; singing at the John McCain&nb...
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  • CLASSIC fm with 10 examples of why Renee Fleming has captured the hearts of millions
    Posted At: August 26, 2018 12:00 AM

    Renée Fleming is an American operatic soprano whose clear, beautiful voice has captured the hearts of millions. From her performance of the national anthem at the Superbowl to her upcoming role in ‘Bel Canto, the celebrated  singer whose signature roles include the Countess Almaviva in Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, and Violetta in Verdi's La Traviata. here's everything you need to know a...
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  • Neuroscience and music, a conversation with Renee Fleming / Stanford Scope
    Posted At: February 15, 2018 12:00 AM

    About a month before she opens on Broadway in the revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel, Renée Fleming is sitting in a broadcast booth talking to me about neuroscience and music. I'm able to grab time with the celebrated soprano to discuss Sound Health: Music and the Mind, a collaboration between the Kennedy Center, the National Institutes of Health, and the National Endowment for the ...
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  • Renee Fleming to give Northwestern University commencement address / Seattle Times
    Posted At: February 12, 2018 12:00 AM

    Famed soprano Renee Fleming is to give the commencement address at Northwestern University this year. The Grammy Award winning opera singer will give remarks at the Evanston school's June 22nd commencement ceremony at Ryan Field. Fleming previously led a master class featuring four Northwestern voice and opera students at the university's Bienen School of Music in 2014. Fleming has received the National ...
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  • Renee Fleming will sing and talk at Stanford / The Mercury News
    Posted At: January 23, 2018 12:00 AM

    In a career spanning more than 30 years, Renée Fleming has performed for heads of state and royalty. She has thrilled audiences around the globe with her magnificent soprano voice. Fleming, who performs at Stanford's Bing Concert Hall on Wednesday, Jan. 31, presents a diverse repertoire at her recitals. This concert will include pieces by Handel, Brahms and Oscar Straus, new works by Pul...
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  • Renee Fleming delivers vocal magic at sold out West Palm recital / South Florida Classical Review
    Posted At: January 15, 2018 12:00 AM

    A sold-out house greeted Renée Fleming at the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach on Saturday night for a recital that ranged through Baroque and romantic operatic arias, lieder and art songs and Broadway standards.  Fleming commented that it has been ten years since she last sang on the Kravis stage. Indeed the beloved soprano is moving toward retirement or, perhaps, a change of musical paths. ...
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  • NIH taps the brain to find how music heals / Bradenton Herald
    Posted At: December 20, 2017 12:00 AM

    Like a friendly Pied Piper, the violinist keeps up a toe-tapping beat as dancers weave through busy hospital hallways and into the chemotherapy unit, patients looking up in surprised delight. Upstairs, a cellist plays an Irish folk tune for a patient in intensive care. Music increasingly is becoming a part of patient care - although it's still pretty unusual to see roving performers captivating entir...
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  • Renee Fleming - Sound Health: Music and the Mind set for the Gaillard Center / Charleston City Paper
    Posted At: November 16, 2017 12:00 AM

    On Fri. Dec. 8 at 1:30 p.m. the Gaillard Center features a special talk from visiting Soprano, Renee Fleming, called Sound Health: Music and the Mind. Fleming will be joined by executive director of the Clinical Biotechnology Research Institute at St. Francis Hospital, Dr. Jacobo Mintzer; principal cellist with the Charleston Symphony Orchestra, Norbert Lewandowski; and CEO and president of Network Neuro...
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  • Don't miss Renee Fleming with Vienna Philharmonic for annual Summer Night Concert on PBS: Great Performances / TVInsider
    Posted At: August 19, 2017 12:00 AM

    p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Arial} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Arial; min-height: 11.0px} What's On FOR TVInsider?  For classical fans, Renee Fleming joins the Vienna Philharmonic for the annual Summer Night Concert from Schönbrunn Palace, a PBS Great Performances special (Friday, 9/8c. One of the most beloved and celebrated sing...
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  • Renee Fleming performs first Korean concert in 15 years / donga.com
    Posted At: July 8, 2017 12:00 AM

    Renee Fleming, America's most popular soprano, performed her first concert in Korea in 15 years on Monday. "I missed you," Fleming said after singing the first song, "C'est Thais, l'idole fragile" from the opera "Thais" by Massenet at her recital in the Seoul Arts Center. The whole audience-close to 2,000 seats- cheered enthusiastically for this long-awaited performance. She sang and smiled,...
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  • Renee Fleming and Eason Chan to collaborate in support of Hong Kong art education / South China Morning Post
    Posted At: June 27, 2017 12:00 AM

    More than 400 guests turned out to support the First Initiative Foundation World In Tune Charity Gala, including famous soprano Renée Fleming, Canto-pop King Eason Chan, singer Miriam Yeung, Cantonese opera sensation Connie Chan and many more. The annual stellar soiree, organised by Michelle Ong, founder of the FIF charity, raised funds to support art education projects. During the gala, Ong also ...
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  • Renee Fleming - Distant Light / KUCI review
    Posted At: May 20, 2017 12:00 AM

    New in the KUCI Classical Library - Renee Fleming -  Distant Light   - (Decca)  Soprano Fleming is noted not only for the pureness of her tone but for the broadness of her repertoire. Performing here with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Sakari Oramo, conductor, she takes on Samuel Barber's "Knoxville: Summer of 1915", contemporary Swedish composer Anders Hillborg's , "The Str...
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  • Renee Fleming takes her final bow in 'Der Rosenkavalier' / The New York Times
    Posted At: May 13, 2017 12:00 AM

    The standing ovation shook the Metropolitan Opera on Saturday afternoon, with confetti made from ripped-up programs cascading down from the theater's highest balcony as a bouquet of pink roses was tossed to the stage. Renée Fleming, the star soprano, had just bid farewell to one of her signature roles - the Marschallin in Richard Strauss's "Der Rosenkavalier" - closing an important chapter in a st...
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  • Saying farewell to some opera roles, Renee Fleming has high notes ahead / PBS NewsHour
    Posted At: May 11, 2017 12:00 AM

    Despite reports that renowned soprano Renée Fleming is taking a bow from singing, this diva is not departing. Fleming, 58, plans to perform in concerts on stages around the world, and to take roles offstage as well. Fleming joins Jeffrey Brown at the Metropolitan Opera to discuss what's next for her. JUDY WOODRUFF: And, finally, a little change of pace. Opera lovers let out a collective ga...
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  • Renee Fleming and Joshua Bell will share the stage at World Science Festival / New York Times
    Posted At: April 27, 2017 12:00 AM

    The opera star Renée Fleming and the violinist Joshua Bell - two musicians whose fame transcends classical music - will share the stage in "Time, Creativity and the Cosmos," a multimedia spectacle to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the World Science Festival in New York. The performance, on May 30 at Jazz at Lincoln Center, is among the more than 50 events in the festival, which runs from May 30...
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  • Renee Fleming discusses bway on FOX News - Power Player Plus
    Posted At: April 16, 2017 12:00 AM

    One of the most beloved and celebrated singers of our time, soprano Renée Fleming captivates audiences with her sumptuous voice, consummate artistry, and compelling stage presence. At a White House ceremony in 2013, President Obama awarded her the National Medal of Arts, America's highest honor for an individual artist. Known as "the people's diva" and winner of the 2013 Grammy Award...
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  • Renee Fleming set for Valentines concert at UGA's Hodgson Hall / The Red&Black Q&A
    Posted At: February 14, 2017 12:00 AM

    Few singers around the world have as long a list of accomplishments as soprano opera singer Renée Fleming. With four Grammy award wins, she has traveled the world performing a plethora of operatic roles. In 2013, President Obama awarded Fleming the National Medal of Arts, and in 2014, she was the first opera singer to sing the national anthem at the Super Bowl. The soprano's new Decc...
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  • Chicago Voices Creator - Renee Fleming has some experience curating a tapestry of voices / WTTW-TV
    Posted At: February 3, 2017 12:00 AM

    Lyric Opera of Chicago is taking a break this weekend from the usual sounds that come from the company's famous stage. And quite a break it is. It's a concert called Chicago Voices, and it showcases an array of musical styles from performers who all have ties to the city including: Brett and Rennie Sparks of the alt-country duo The Handsome Family, Shemekia Copeland, who was born in Harlem, but n...
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