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May 22, 2014 · Renée Fleming’s magnificent Blanche dominates the stage in every scene that she’s in. The tragedy belongs to her character — and it’s personal, achingly so. Fleming is quite simply the best Blanche I’ve seen since Elizabeth Marvel brutally assayed the role in Ivo van Hove’s brilliant deconstruction at New York Theater Workshop in 1999.
May 19, 2014 · The Los Angeles Opera mounted André Previn’s 1998 opera based on Tennessee Williams’ dramatic masterpiece A Streetcar Named Desire, Presented in Director Brad Dalton’s stunningly effective staging, it starred soprano Renée Fleming as Blanche DuBois in the role she created 16 years earlier at the San Francisco Opera.
Renée Fleming’s magnificent Blanche dominates the stage in every scene that she’s in. The tragedy belongs to her character -- and it’s personal, achingly so.
May 19, 2014 · In its operatic incarnation, “A Streetcar Named Desire” presents a memorable piece of American musical theater with Fleming as a Blanche to remember.
Mar 15, 2008 · Soprano Renee Fleming, who created the role of Blanche in the opera's world premiere, sings the character's signature aria.
- Lynn Neary
Fleming's increasingly heavy voice seems right for this role, and she is a good vocal actress, suggesting the many layers (innocence, vulnerability, sexual predation) of Blanche's shattered personality.
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Blanche only feels secure in her dream world as she tells Mitch in her ACT III aria "Real who wants real…I want magic". As Previn says, "This aria is sultry and torpid and you can feel the heat and humidity, as well as understand Blanche's desperation and her special grace."
