page_title: Renée Fleming
section_title: Honors
hierarchical_section_title: Renée Fleming / Honors
caption_attribution_description: English: Soprano Renée Fleming receives the National Medals of Arts from President Barack Obama in July 2012.
context_page_description: Renée Lynn Fleming is an American operatic soprano, known for performances in opera, concerts, recordings, theater, film, and at major public occasions. Fleming has a full lyric soprano voice. She has performed coloratura, lyric, and lighter spinto soprano operatic roles in Italian, German, French, Czech, and Russian, aside from her native English. Her signature roles include Countess Almaviva in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, Desdemona in Verdi's Otello, Violetta in Verdi's La traviata, the title role in Dvořák's Rusalka, the title role in Massenet's Manon, the title role in Massenet's Thaïs, Tatyana in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, the title role in Richard Strauss's Arabella, the Marschallin in Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, the Countess in Strauss's Capriccio, and Blanche DuBois in André Previn's A Streetcar Named Desire.
  A recipient of the National Medal of Arts, Fleming has been nominated for 17 Grammy Awards and has won four times.
context_section_description: 1993: Honorary member of Sigma Alpha Iota, International Music Fraternity for Women
  Fleming received the 1999 Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Performance for her album The Beautiful Voice.
  In 2000, Chef Daniel Boulud named a dessert, La Diva Renée, after her.
  Ann Patchett used Fleming as the inspiration for a character in the 2001 novel Bel Canto.
  Fleming received the 2003 Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Performance for her album Bel Canto.
  In 2003, Fleming was awarded Honorary Membership in the Royal Academy of Music.
  Also in 2003, Fleming received an Honorary Doctorate from the Juilliard School, and she was the Speaker for the Commencement Ceremony.
  In 2004, Fleming received the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music at the Classic Brit Awards.
  In 2005, she was made a Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur.
  In 2008, Fleming was awarded the Polar Music Prize "in recognition of her sublime unparalleled voice and unique stylistic versatility".
  Fleming's 2009 album Verismo was awarded the Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Performance.
  In 2011, Fleming received an Honorary Doctorate from the Eastman School of Music.
  Also in 2011, Fleming was the recipient of the Fulbright Lifetime Achievement Medal.
  In February 2012, Fleming was awarded the Victoire d'Honneur prize by France's Victoires de la musique classique.
  On May 20, 2012, Fleming was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts by Carnegie Mellon University.
  In October 2012, Fleming was named Singer of the Year by the German ECHO Klassik Awards.
  In February 2013, Fleming received her fourth Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Solo for her album Poèmes.
  Fleming was awarded the 2012 National Medal of Arts.
  On May 28, 2015, Fleming received an Honorary Doctor of Music degree from Harvard University.
  In March 2017, Fleming's album Signatures was selected for preservation in the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or artistically significant".
  On 29 May 2018, the asteroid 31249 Renéefleming was named in her honor.
  On June 13, 2018, Fleming was awarded the Female Artist of the Year at the Classic Brit Awards.
  On 22 June 2018, Fleming received an Honorary Doctor of Arts from Northwestern University, where she was also the commencement speaker.
  On 11 November 2018, Fleming was awarded the Edison Award Oeuvre Prize, an annual Dutch music honor given for outstanding achievements in the music industry.
caption: President Barack Obama awards Renée Fleming the 2012 National Medal of Arts.
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