Fred Plotkin

Over the coming months, New Yorkers can revel in remarkably different facets of the artistry of Renée Fleming. The American soprano — who received the Kennedy Center Honor in 2023 for her career achievements — first arrives on February 14, when Fleming joins pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet, her longtime musical partner, on an Artist Spotlight recital that includes songs by Gabriel Fauré, Reynaldo Hahn, Olivier Messiaen, Richard Strauss, and Alan Fletcher.

Over the coming months, New Yorkers can revel in remarkably different facets of the artistry of Renée Fleming. The American soprano — who received the Kennedy Center Honor in 2023 for her career achievements — first arrives on February 14, when Fleming joins pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet, her longtime musical partner, on an Artist Spotlight recital that includes songs by Gabriel Fauré, Reynaldo Hahn, Olivier Messiaen, Richard Strauss, and Alan Fletcher.

By Fred Plotkin / New York It has been a pleasure to be a weekly contributor to The Insider since its inception at the beginning of the Covid-19 plague that swept the world. I am grateful to Andrea Sachs and her team for the opportunity. The name applied to the disease that became a pandemic reminds us that it was described in autumn 2019. It seems to have first appeared in China and most people elsewhere chose to think of it as someone else’s problem. I never did.