Dark Hope

Dark Hope
Studio album by Renée Fleming
Released	8 June 2010
Genre	Indie rock
Length	48:19
Label	Decca Records Cat. No.: B0014186-02
Producer	David Kahne
Renée Fleming chronology
Verismo (2009) Dark Hope (2010)

Dark Hope is a 2010 album of indie rock titles sung by operatic soprano Renée Fleming.

The album was the idea of Peter Mensch and Cliff Burnstein; after listening to Fleming's performance of "In the Pines" on Elvis Costello's TV show Spectacle, they approached Fleming and producer David Kahne.^[1] The aim was not to produce a typical crossover album, but a collection of songs sung without any hint of operatic vocal strength.^[2]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Endlessly"	Muse	3:59
2.	"No One's Gonna Love You"	Band of Horses	3:41
3.	"Oxygen"	Willy Mason	4:15
4.	"Today"	Jefferson Airplane	3:22
5.	"Intervention"	Arcade Fire	4:19
6.	"With Twilight As My Guide"	The Mars Volta	5:33
7.	"Mad World"	Tears for Fears	3:53
8.	"In Your Eyes"	Peter Gabriel	5:01
9.	"Stepping Stone"	Duffy	3:26
10.	"Soul Meets Body"	Death Cab for Cutie	3:11
11.	"Hallelujah"	Leonard Cohen	7:39
Total length:			48:19

Credits

Performance credits

• Rusty Anderson, Nick Valensi – guitar
• David Kahne – bass, guitar, keyboards
• Will Lee – bass
• Shawn Pelton – drums
• Jesse Mills, Cyrus Beroukhin – violin
• Dov Scheindlin, William Hakim – viola
• Wendy Sutter – cello
• Alexis Pia Gerlach – cello
• Amelia Ross, Sage Ross (Flemings's daughters), Rachelle Fleming, (Renée's sister) – background vocals
• Mike Rossi – conductor

Technical credits

• Roy Hendrickson – engineer
• David Kahne – arranger, programming, producer, engineer
• Rebecca Meek – art direction

References

1. ^ "Renée Fleming rocks out on Dark Hope" by Kevin Berger, Los Angeles Times (6 June 2010)
2. ^ "Renée Fleming: Diva goes to the dark side" by Peter Conrad, The Guardian (28 March 2010)

External links

• Renée Fleming: Dark Hope
• "Opera Star Renée Fleming Takes on Arcade Fire, Death Cab for Cutie on 'Dark Hope'" by Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone (25 February 2010)
• Renee Fleming – Dark Hope trailer on YouTube
• Dark Hope at Allmusic