in Opera Now (Dec, 2018)
Christmas looms, and the big stars bombard us with nuggets of optimism, hoping that we will squander our pennies on their new CDs. So, now that Renée Fleming has turned her attentions to the Broadway stage and garnered a Tony Award nomination for Carousel this year, it’s perhaps no huge surprise that Broadway is her new album. Once you’ve got over the dire cover, it’s actually an interesting selection of beautifully arranged numbers; Fleming inventively avoids the obvious, with selections ranging from Cole Porter’s 1936 Red, Hot and Blue to Dear Evan Hansen, still playing on Broadway and due to open in London next year (and which sounds a real miseryfest …
Broadway – Renée Fleming
Fable (From “The Light in the Piazza”)
Loneliness of Evening (From “South Pacific”)
Medley: Children will Listen / You’ve Got to be Carefully Taught (From “Into the Woods” & “South Pacific”)
So Big/So Small (From “Dear Evan Hansen”)
Something Wonderful (From “The King and I”)
A Wonderful Guy (From “South Pacific”)
Lay Down Your Head (From “Violet”)
Down in the Depths on the 90th Floor (From “Red, Hot and Blue”)
Medley: Love and Love Alone / Winter (From “The Visit”)
Dear Friend (From “She Loves Me”)
The Sound of Music (From “The Sound of Music”)
Unusual Way (From “Nine”)
Till There Was You (From “The Music Man”)
A Little Night Music
The Glamorous Life (arr. Jonathan Tunick)
Tell Me on a Sunday (From “Song and Dance”)
August Winds (From “The Last Ship”)
All the Things You Are (From “Very Warm for May”)
Renée Fleming, BBC Concert Orchestra, Rob Fisher
Renée Fleming, BBC Concert Orchestra, Rob Fisher
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