“I don’t want to hit people over the head and make them sorry they came to the concert,” Renee Fleming said with a smile, “But I do want a sort of collective ‘We love the planet.’”
The American soprano was talking about Voice of Nature: The Anthropocene, the title of her 2021 album and “Renee Fleming: Voice of Nature”, the concert she was performing in Hong Kong.
At 66, Fleming has lost none of the beauty and glamour which, combined with her exquisite voice and dramatic ability, has made her one of the world’s greatest opera stars. She seems indefatigable – the city was the second stop in Asia following Shanghai – and she gave three lectures in Hong Kong in addition to her two concerts.
