Dark Hope
title: "Dark Hope" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["2010-albums", "indie-rock-albums-by-american-artists", "decca-records-albums", "2010s-covers-albums", "albums-produced-by-david-kahne", "renée-fleming-albums"] topic_path: "arts/music" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Hope" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::data[format=table title="Infobox album"]
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Dark Hope |
| type | studio |
| artist | Renée Fleming |
| cover | Dark Hope (Fleming).jpg |
| released | 8 June 2010 |
| genre | Indie rock |
| length | 48:19 |
| label | Decca Records |
| Cat. No.: B0014186-02 | |
| producer | David Kahne |
| prev_title | Verismo |
| prev_year | 2009 |
| next_title | Poèmes |
| next_year | 2012 |
| :: |
| name = Dark Hope | type = studio | artist = Renée Fleming | cover = Dark Hope (Fleming).jpg | alt = | released = 8 June 2010 | recorded = | venue = | studio = | genre = Indie rock | length = 48:19 | label = Decca Records Cat. No.: B0014186-02 | producer = David Kahne | prev_title = Verismo | prev_year = 2009 | next_title = Poèmes | next_year = 2012 Dark Hope is a 2010 album of indie rock titles sung by opera 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. The aim was not to produce a typical crossover album, but a collection of songs sung without any hint of operatic vocal strength.
Track listing
|title1=Endlessly|length1=3:59|extra1=Muse|note1=from Absolution |title2=No One's Gonna Love You|length2=3:41|extra2=Band of Horses|note2=from Cease to Begin |title3=Oxygen|length3=4:15|extra3=Willy Mason|note3=from Where the Humans Eat |title4=Today|length4=3:22|extra4=Jefferson Airplane|note4=from Surrealistic Pillow |title5=Intervention|length5=4:19|extra5=Arcade Fire|note5=from Neon Bible |title6=With Twilight As My Guide|length6=5:33|extra6=The Mars Volta|note6=from Octahedron |title7=Mad World|length7=3:53|extra7=Tears for Fears|note7=from The Hurting |title8=In Your Eyes|length8=5:01|extra8=Peter Gabriel|note8=from So |title9=Stepping Stone|length9=3:26|extra9=Duffy|note9=from Rockferry |title10=Soul Meets Body|length10=3:11|extra10=Death Cab for Cutie|note10=from Plans |title11=Hallelujah|length11=7:39|extra11=Leonard Cohen|note11=from Various Positions}}
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, Rachelle Fleming – background vocals
- Mike Rossi – conductor
Technical credits
- Roy Hendrickson – engineer
- David Kahne – arranger, programming, producer, engineer
- Rebecca Meek – art direction
Charts
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References
References
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20100609111108/http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/music/la-ca-renee-fleming-20100606-52,0,1163490,full.story "Renée Fleming rocks out on ''Dark Hope''"] by Kevin Berger, ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' (6 June 2010)
- [https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/mar/28/renee-fleming-indie-rock-album "Renée Fleming: Diva goes to the dark side"] by [[Peter Conrad (academic). Peter Conrad]], ''[[The Guardian]]'' (28 March 2010)
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