Performance: Renée Fleming: Voice of Nature

Renée Fleming brings her contemplative approach to art to the Lensic stage with Voice of Nature: the Anthropocene, a recital based on her 2023 Grammy-winning album. As Fleming came to grips with the climate crisis, she turned to a great legacy of song literature—Romantic-era poets and composers who reveled in imagery of nature, finding reflections of human experience in the environment. In collaboration with Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Fleming juxtaposed these classics with the voices of living composers, addressing our current, troubled relationship with the natural world.