With Renée Fleming, Super Bowl XLVIII Gets an Operatic Opening
The N.F.L. and Fox deserve credit for thinking outside the usual pop-music box in selecting the opera singer Renée Fleming to perform the national anthem at this year's Super Bowl.
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