Opera stars release timely recording on climate change

This cover image released by Decca shows 'Voice of Nature - The Anthropocene,' an album by soprano Renée Fleming and conductor and pianist Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Photo: Decca via AP

Their travel and performance limited during the pandemic, soprano Renée Fleming and Yannick Nézet-Séguin brainstormed on songs they could perform together at a piano and concluded on a theme of climate change.

"I’ve been thinking for years about how Romantic poetry and song literature framed every human experience,” she said, "and of course I was horrified the last year by Mother Nature making her unhappiness very loud and clear to us.”