Opera superstar Renée Fleming will make her Broadway debut this spring in Living on Love. The previously speculated transfer of the Williamstown Theatre Festival production will begin performances on April 1, 2015 at the Longacre Theatre. It will open officially on April 20 and run through August 2. The comedy, written by Joe DiPietro, will be directed by Kathleen Marshall.



In Living on Love, Fleming plays celebrated diva Raquel DeAngelis. When her husband, the fiery and egomaniacal Maestro Vito DeAngelis, becomes enamored with the lovely young lady hired to ghostwrite his long-delayed autobiography, Rachel retaliates by hiring her very own—and very handsome—ghostwriter to chronicle her life as an opera star. Sparks fly, silverware is thrown, and romance blossoms. The comedy is adapted from Garson Kanin’s Peccadillo.



Fleming, a four-time Grammy Award winner, has performed on the stages of countless opera houses, including The Metropolitan Opera, where she will sing The Merry Widow later this month, Milan’s La Scala and London’s Royal Opera. In 2013, she was awarded the National Medal of Arts. Earlier this year, she released her first holiday album, Christmas in New York, which featured Broadway favorite and Merry Widow co-star Kelli O’Hara.



Additional casting and creative team will be announced at a later date. The company of the WTF production also included Justin Long, Blake Hammond, incoming You Can't Take It With You (which is currently playing a limited engagement in the Longacre) star Anna Chlumsky, Douglas Sills and Scott Robertson.