Get ready for orchestral and vocal magic when 2023 Kennedy Center honoree Renée Fleming performs songs by Richard Strauss and a world premiere by Alan Fletcher. It’s been said that Strauss had a lifelong love affair with the soprano voice. He was undoubtedly inspired in part by his wife Pauline, a famous soprano in her day. Strauss’s writing for sopranos fully displays their vocal prowess, and some of his most memorable operatic roles are for the soprano voice. Renée Fleming has long had an extraordinary affinity for Strauss’s music, creating unforgettable heroines on the opera stage. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear her in some of Strauss’s most sensuous and moving orchestral songs.

Festival Orchestra: Renée Fleming, Pines of Rome

Michael Klein Music Tent

Get ready for orchestral and vocal magic when 2023 Kennedy Center honoree Renée Fleming performs songs by Richard Strauss and a world premiere by Alan Fletcher. It’s been said that Strauss had a lifelong love affair with the soprano voice. He was undoubtedly inspired in part by his wife Pauline, a famous soprano in her day. Strauss’s writing for sopranos fully displays their vocal prowess, and some of his most memorable operatic roles are for the soprano voice. Renée Fleming has long had an extraordinary affinity for Strauss’s music, creating unforgettable heroines on the opera stage. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear her in some of Strauss’s most sensuous and moving orchestral songs. Experience the spectacular artistry of Renée Fleming and works by some of the greatest orchestrators of all time as the Aspen Festival Orchestra ushers in the 75th anniversary season!

AMFS: Festival Orchestra: Renée Fleming, Pines of Rome 

Klein Music Tent

America/Beautiful is a project by pianist and arts advocate Min Kwon, in which she has commissioned a diverse group of more than 70 of today’s leading American composers to each compose a variation on “America the Beautiful.”

Kwon's hope is to paint a sonic picture of her adopted country in all of its sprawling complexity, and ultimately try to find the beauty at the core of the American experiment and its credo of e pluribus unum (out of many, one).

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America / Beautiful: Min Kwon piano

Aspen Meadows Resort

Celebrate 250 years of the American Spirit with this dynamic symphonic concert! Crowd favorite Samantha Rose Williams returns to sing Alan Fletcher’s “Three American Songs” and selections by Florence Price. The evening culminates in the vibrant and iconic sounds of Bernstein’s “Symphonic Dances” from West Side Story, a testament to the nation’s enduring artistic energy.

Alan Fletcher

Events

Upcoming events

Jan 25, 2026

American Songs · Salina Symphony

Past events

Jun 30, 2024

Festival Orchestra: Renée Fleming, Pines of Rome · Aspen Music Festival

Jun 30, 2024

AMFS: Festival Orchestra: Renée Fleming, Pines of Rome · Aspen Chamber Resort Association

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