Renée Fleming, Opera Star, Tries a Rock Album

From NYTimes:

"Renée Fleming, a darling of the opera world, has a new album titled “Dark Hope,” on which she covers indie rock acts. The classical world scratches its head at the impulse. The recording’s promoters — and Ms. Fleming herself — shy away from labeling it a crossover album, calling it instead, “somewhat sheepishly,” as Anthony Tommasini, the chief classical music critic of The New York Times, wrote in Sunday’s Arts & Leisure section, a visit to a “parallel universe.”"

First Peter Gabriel, now Renée Fleming, covers indie rock. I don't love this album, but I like it more than I expected, and in an appropriate twist, she covers—the best one, in my estimation—In Your Eyes, that anthem for Lloyd Dobblers everywhere, myself included. I could have done without the 10 millionth Hallelujah, however. There should be a moratorium on covers of that song.