Climb every diva
So Anna Netrebko met Julie Andrews yesterday afternoon at an event for the American Austrian Foundation, but that’s just the beginning! There’s Anna’s absolutely adorable spelling blooper on...
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UPDATE: Video of Anna Netrebko’s “Peak Elizabeth Taylor” look in action. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w16CdC6lRQ
View ArticleBlonde Venus?
The frequently-omniscient Future Met Wiki has recently vouchsafed a few morsels about upcoming Met seasons. Details after the jump! In 2019-2020, the repertory will include Tchaikovsky’s Pikovaya...
View ArticleArt is domination!
Anna Netrebko is Maria Callas in Terrence McNally‘s Master Class! //www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3rT2uf0B2E ?t=13
View ArticleOhne Meiden, ohne Scheiden
Yusif Eyvazov just let slip what we must assume is a very long-term project indeed for himself and Anna Netrebko: the title roles in Tristan und Isolde.
View ArticleDie, die my darlings
The year 2020 marks the first staged performances of Turandot on Anna Netrebko‘s schedule. She introduces her complete interpretation at the Bayerische Staatsoper January 28 and 31 and February 3. The...
View ArticlePhoto finish
“Opera has long been held up as an art form whose plots and productions operate in a realm that floats above reality. In an age, however, where reality has a tighter grip on us, artists must at least...
View Article“Among others”
Meanwhile, a Met musician tells NPR “Here’s just one more catastrophic crisis — and it seems that at the Met, sufficiently powerful, popular men are beyond reproach.”
View ArticleAnna Bellezza
You know, the kind you make from the best organic berries with long stems that is then enrobed in the best French dark and white chocolates. It’s seductive, it’s sweet and beautiful; it’s dark, but...
View ArticleWe all sleep alone
Dame Judi Dench (with Ian McKellen in the 1976 Royal Shakespeare Company production of Macbeth) joins Anna Netrebko, Anne Midgette and Rhiannon Giddens to discuss the iconic Sleepwalking Scene from...
View ArticleAltre parole bisbigliavi
The diva implies strongly declares that an underprepared reporter from Corriere della sera asked “not very smart questions” and, when Netrebko refused to answer them, wrote “anyway what they wanted to...
View ArticleIf love is out of the question
Live video of Anna Netrebko and Yusif Eyvazov in the riddle scene from Turandot, as seen and heard recently in Munich.
View ArticlePrincess of the posse
La Cieca hears that the centerpiece of the 2021 Salzburg Easter Festival will be a new production of Turandot conducted by Christian Thielemann (not pictured) .
View ArticleDesperately seeking Tosca?
EARLIER: Netrebko has said she will not be coming to New York this spring, at least not in time for the first several performances of Tosca. The soprano has been apparently been mulling her decision...
View ArticleWild horses
After our look-in on Robert Wilson’s Verdi, let’s move on to Verona and Franco Zeffirelli, who’s been staging his signature showpieces in the Roman Arena since 1995, when he started with Carmen. (His...
View ArticlePrima donna al fresco: integrale!
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQYPNYfeJYk A video of the concert proper will stream on July 30. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Rossella Tortora (@rossella.tortora) on Jul 19, 2020 at...
View ArticleTake the long way homo
“The worst public in the opera are these obsessed gays. . . . All these rich guys with nothing to do in their life, just following Anna Netrebko or Jonas Kaufmann on all continents. This is not a real...
View ArticleInside, outside
“While Renée Fleming performed without an audience, DG Stage offered Puccini’s beloved melodrama Tosca before an outdoor crowd in Naples.”
View ArticleI Puritani
Starring Anna Netrebko, Eric Cutler, Franco Vassallo and John Relyea; conducted by Patrick Summers. From January 6, 2007.
View ArticleTosca
Live from the Vienna State Opera, starring Anna Netrebko, Yusif Eyvazov and Wolfgang Koch; Bertrand de Billy conducts.
View ArticleMet Stars in Concert: Anna Netrebko in Vienna
Anna Netrebko performs “a program of captivating Russian songs by Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, and Rimsky-Korsakov, as well as selections by Strauss, Debussy, Fauré, and more.” Live from Vienna’s...
View ArticleThe expansive and the ostentatious
At the contentious point of confluence between the decay of the Met management’s relationship to its orchestra and chorus, conversations about cultural appropriation in opera, and what it means to...
View ArticleInsult to injury
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View ArticleMaddalena scene
I have a friend who travels for business and is what I would call a Level 2 opera fan. He enjoys attending performances and checks in on the radio broadcasts, knows his singers, but not a serious...
View ArticleCharisma and chemistry
Teatro Real at Madrid was the first major opera house in the world to resume opera performances last year. Since then they have managed to run almost a full season: from 13 planned productions they...
View ArticleTears in heaven
This exclusive sound file includes scenes from the second and third acts of Turandot, including the aria “Del primo pianto.” TURANDOT: Anna Netrebko IMPERATORE ALTOUM: Carlo Bosi TIMUR: Riccardo Fassi...
View ArticleDisjointed
To be fair, Nabucco is one opera in which a soprano needs full access to her épaulage.
View ArticleMacbeth
Riccardo Chailly conducts a new production of Verdi’s tragedy featuring Luca Salsi, Anna Netrebko, Ildar Abdrazakov and Francesco Meli.
View ArticleServe with caviar and vodka
“It was all surprisingly good? Even the Party Pork, which has you marinate a piece of pork neck in vermouth and steak seasoning. It shouldn’t work, and yet it did.”
View ArticleAnti-war Anna
The diva writes: “I expressly condemn the war on Ukraine and my thoughts are with the victims of this war and their families. My position is clear. I am not a member of any political party nor am I...
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