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Anna Netrebko: Live at the Metropolitan Opera
Anna Netrebko (soprano), Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Andrei), Ekaterina Semenchuk (Sonya), Mariusz Kwiecien (Malatesta), Simone Alaimo (Don Pasquale), Juan Diego Florez (Ernesto), Nancy Fabiola Herrera (Maddalena), Eric Halfvarson (Sparafucile), Roberto Alagna (Romeo), Ildar Abdrazakov (Raimondo), Michael...
There is an alert sense of drama, which is where Netrebko really scores as a singing actress...While her bel canto is judged 'could do better', it's worth considering that, at 40, Netrebko is...
Anna Netrebko: Live at the Metropolitan Opera
Anna Netrebko (soprano), Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Andrei), Ekaterina Semenchuk (Sonya), Mariusz Kwiecien (Malatesta), Simone Alaimo (Don Pasquale), Juan Diego Florez (Ernesto), Nancy Fabiola Herrera (Maddalena), Eric Halfvarson (Sparafucile), Roberto Alagna (Romeo), Ildar Abdrazakov (Raimondo), Michael...
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There is an alert sense of drama, which is where Netrebko really scores as a singing actress...While her bel canto is judged 'could do better', it's worth considering that, at 40, Netrebko is...
About
The forthcoming season marks the 10th anniversary of Anna Netrebko’s debut with the Metropolitan Opera, New York. The new album celebrates this milestone by bringing together her greatest MET moments throughout the past 10 seasons - performances never before issued on record and most never commercially released on any format.
Anna Netrebko's first operatic album sold more than 300,000 units, the second, Sempre libera, more than 400,000, while her live recording of Verdi's La Traviata has sold in excess of 350,000 on CD alone. This new album, capturing the thrill of her greatest performances on one of the world's most iconic stages, will be a major event for hundreds of thousands of fans who have followed her career in the opera house, on radio, on CD, on DVD and in cinemas worldwide.
Over the past decade, The Met has played host to many of the Russian soprano’s greatest triumphs, from Prokofiev’s War and Peace in 2002 to her most recent appearance, in 2010, as Adina in Donizetti's Don Pasquale. The album also includes virtuoso arias from Mozart's Don Giovanni, Bellini's I Puritani, Verdi's Rigoletto, Gounod's Roméo et Juliette, Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor and Puccini's La Bohème.
The selections - including performances with tenors Roberto Alagna, Joseph Calleja and Juan Diego Flórez - demonstrate Anna Netrebko's remarkable vocal range and dramatic imagination. All recorded live, they are infused with her unique vocal magnetism and irresistible on-stage charisma.
Artists
Anna Netrebko (soprano), Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Andrei), Ekaterina Semenchuk (Sonya), Mariusz Kwiecien (Malatesta), Simone Alaimo (Don Pasquale), Juan Diego Florez (Ernesto), Nancy Fabiola Herrera (Maddalena), Eric Halfvarson (Sparafucile), Roberto Alagna (Romeo), Ildar Abdrazakov (Raimondo), Michael Myers (Normanno), Cecilia Brauer (glass harmonica), Joseph Calleja (Hoffmann), Piotr Beczala (Rodolfo), Gerald Finley (Marcello)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus, Patrick Summers, Valery Gergiev, Sylvain Cambreling, Maurizio Benini, Asher Fisch, Placido Domingo, Marco Armiliato, James Levine
Contents and tracklist
- Anna Netrebko (soprano)
- Metropolitan Opera
- Patrick Summers
- Recorded: 2011
- Recording Venue: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
- Anna Netrebko (soprano), Ekaterina Semenchuk (mezzo-soprano), Dmitri Hvorostovsky (baritone)
- Metropolitan Opera
- Valéry Gergiev
- Recorded: 2011
- Recording Venue: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
- Anna Netrebko (soprano)
- Metropolitan Opera
- Sylvain Cambreling
- Recorded: 2011
- Recording Venue: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
- Anna Netrebko (soprano), Juan Diego Flórez (tenor), Mariusz Kwiecień (baritone), Simone Alaimo (bass)
- Metropolitan Opera, Metropolitan Opera Chorus
- Maurizio Benini
- Recorded: 2011
- Recording Venue: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
- Anna Netrebko (soprano), Nancy Fabiola Herrera (mezzo-soprano), Eric Halfvarson (bass)
- Metropolitan Opera
- Asher Fisch
- Recorded: 2011
- Recording Venue: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
- Anna Netrebko (soprano), Roberto Alagna (tenor)
- Metropolitan Opera
- Plácido Domingo
- Recorded: 2011
- Recording Venue: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
- Anna Netrebko (soprano)
- Metropolitan Opera, Metropolitan Opera Chorus
- Marco Armiliato
- Recorded: 2011
- Recording Venue: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
- Anna Netrebko (soprano), Joseph Calleja (tenor)
- Metropolitan Opera
- James Levine
- Recorded: 2011
- Recording Venue: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
- Anna Netrebko (soprano)
- Metropolitan Opera
- Marco Armiliato
- Recorded: 2011
- Recording Venue: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
- Anna Netrebko (soprano), Piotr Beczala (tenor)
- Metropolitan Opera
- Marco Armiliato
- Recorded: 2011
- Recording Venue: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
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Awards and reviews
November 2011
There is an alert sense of drama, which is where Netrebko really scores as a singing actress...While her bel canto is judged 'could do better', it's worth considering that, at 40, Netrebko is now just entering her prime.
13th October 2011
The real treat is her Natasha in Prokofiev's War and Peace, conducted by Gergiev, with Dmitri Hvorostovsky as a dreamy Andrei. It's nicely recorded, too: some of Netrebko's discs capture the power of her voice at the expense of its opulence; here, you get a real sense of its force and beauty.
30th September 2011
This compilation of highlights from Anna Netrebko's Metropolitan Opera roles makes a distinctive introduction to her talents...it's her solo aria from Roméo & Juliette that proves one of the stand-out performances here, the other being a dazzling showstopper from Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, "Il dolce suono", which has the audience justly bawling its acclaim.
1st October 2011
They show Netrebko’s chameleon-like ability to alter her timbre according to repertoire: the ethereal, Sutherland-like soprano in Donizetti and Bellini is unrecognisable as the singer who delivers a hard-edged, glinting Natasha in Prokofiev’s War and Peace.
