NEW YORK (AP) — Opera star Renee Fleming will make her Broadway debut this spring, playing — what else? — an opera star.
The four-time Grammy Award-winner will star in “Living on Love” at the Longacre Theatre beginning April 1.
In the play, Fleming plays a diva whose conductor-husband starts to fall for a woman hired to ghostwrite his autobiography. She retaliates by hiring her own ghostwriter, but also gets romantically attached.
Said the soprano: “I’ve spent my life singing tragic characters, so to be able to make people laugh is an extraordinary joy.”
Fleming, who has performed around the world and serenaded Queen Elizabeth and President Barack Obama, this year became the first opera singer to sing the national anthem at the Super Bowl.
