Opera star Fleming to make Broadway debut

Associated Press

NEW YORK

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.

The comedy was written by two-time Tony Award-winner Joe DiPietro (“Memphis”), adapted from “Peccadillo” by Garson Kanin (“Born Yesterday”) and directed by three-time Tony Award-winner Kathleen Marshall.

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.