Anna Netrebko appears in Lucia “Live in HD” on February 7
Anna
Netrebko will be seen on silver screens around the world this Saturday, when
she takes the stage for “The Met: Live in HD” broadcast of Donizetti’s bel
canto masterpiece, Lucia di Lammermoor. Her colleagues in this Mary Zimmerman
production include tenor Piotr Beczala as Edgardo and baritone Mariusz Kwiecien
as Enrico, with Marco Armiliato leading the cast. The performance begins at 1 pm Eastern Standard Time, and
will also be syndicated to select radio stations worldwide, as part of the Toll
Brothers-Metropolitan Opera Saturday matinee broadcast series. For more information and to purchase
tickets to the “The Met: Live in HD” showing of Lucia, visit the Metropolitan Opera’s website at www.metopera.org.
On January
26, following a six-month maternity leave, Anna Netrebko made her long-awaited
return to the Metropolitan Opera stage, to sing the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor. The New
York Times praised her portrayal of Donizetti’s tragic heroine in its
review of the opening night, stating, “Ms. Netrebko remains a glamorous and
charismatic singer with an opulent and poignantly lovely voice.” The Times
took particular note of her performance of Lucia’s daunting mad scene, writing,
“During the first part of the mad scene … Ms. Netrebko was spellbinding. In the hushed pianissimo passage when
the delusional young woman believes she and her beloved Edgardo are at last
united, she created vocal magic, imbuing lines with spectral colorings that
matched the eerie sounds of the glass harmonica. … Her earthy, subdued
expressivity had me thinking of Callas.”
In
addition to being visible on the stage of the Met over the past week, Anna
Netrebko has been seen by readers of the New
York Post in a profile by Barbara Hoffman and by visitors to the Huffington
Post website in a feature by Patricia Zohn, both of which celebrate the
new mother’s return to the stage.
Following
her sold-out run of Lucia at the Met,
“the reigning new diva of the early 21st century” (AP) continues on
to London’s Royal Opera House, Covent Garden for performances as Giulietta in
Bellini’s I Capuleti e i Montecchi,
opposite Latvian mezzo-soprano Elina Garanca’s Romeo, in March 2009. In June, Netrebko returns to the U.S.
for performances of Verdi’s La traviata
at San Francisco Opera, where she made her North American debut in 1995.
Released
last November, Souvenirs, Anna
Netrebko’s fourth solo album for Deutsche Grammophon, has received substantial
praise from critics: it has been made an Opera
News “Critic’s Choice” and a Gramophone
“Editor’s Choice”, besides being named one of NPR’s “Best CDs of 2008”. Reviewing the recording, Opera News wrote, “Anna Netrebko’s
voluptuous voice and extroverted delivery are right at home in this splashy
recital of light fare drawn from operetta and song literature.”
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The Metropolitan Opera
Lucia di
Lammermoor
Saturday, February 7, 2009
1 pm – 4:30 pm, EST
Cast:
Conductor:
Marco Armiliato
Lucia:
Anna Netrebko
Edgardo:
Piotr Beczala
Enrico:
Mariusz Kwiecien
Raimondo:
Ildar Abdrazakov
Production
team:
Production:
Mary Zimmerman
Set
Designer: Daniel Ostling
Costume
Designer: Mara Blumenfeld
Lighting
Designer: T. J. Gerckens
Choreographer:
Daniel Pelzig
Anna Netrebko: upcoming appearances
March 2, 5, 7, & 30; April 2, 7, & 11Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London
I Capuleti e i Montecchi / Giulietta
March 14, 17, 21, & 24
Vienna State Opera
Lucia di Lammermoor/ title role
April 22, 26, & 29
Zurich Opera (debut)
La traviata/
Violetta
May 16
Braunschweig, Germany
Concert
with Dmitri Hvorostovsky
May 19
Royal Festival Hall, London
Concert
with Dmitri Hvorostovsky
May 24, 28, & 31
Bavarian State Opera, Munich
La bohème
/ Mimì
June 13, 16, 19, 25, & 28
San Francisco Opera
La traviata/
Violetta
July 18, 21, 24, & 27
Festspielhaus Baden-Baden
Iolantha
/ title role
August 12
Rosengarten Mozartsaal,
Mannheim
Recital
August 17
Salzburg Festival
Recital
with Daniel Barenboim
Anna Netrebko’s recent and
upcoming releases
Bellini: I Capuleti e i
Montecchi (Deutsche Grammophon)
Two-CD set, available in spring
2009
Anna Netrebko, Elina Garanca,
Joseph Calleja, Robert Gleadow, Tiziano Bracci; Wiener Symphoniker / Fabio Luisi;
Wiener Singakademie
Souvenirs
CD, available now (Deutsche Grammophon)
Anna Netrebko
Works by G. Charpentier, Dvorák,
Giménez, Grieg, Guastavino, Hahn, Heuberger, Kálmán, Léhar, Lloyd Webber,
Messager, Offenbach, Rimsky-Korsakov, R. Strauss
Elina Garanca, Piotr Beczala,
Andrew Swait; Prague Philharmonia / Emmanuel Villaume
Massenet: Manon
Two DVD-set, available
now (Unitel)
Anna Netrebko, Rolando
Villazón, Alfredo Daza, Christof Fischesser, Remy Corazza, Arttu Kataja, Hanan
Alattar; Staatskapelle Berlin / Daniel Barenboim
Massenet: Manon
Two
Blu-ray Disc-set, available now (Unitel)
Anna
Netrebko, Rolando Villazón
Bellini: I Puritani
Blu-ray Disc, available now
(Deutsche Grammophon / MET)
Anna Netrebko, Eduardo Valdes,
Maria Zifchak, Franco Vassallo, John Relyea, Eric Cutler, Valerian Ruminski;
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra / Chorus and Ballet / Patrick Summers
The Opera Gala – Live from Baden-Baden
Blu-ray Disc, available now
(Unitel)
Anna Netrebko, Elina Garanca,
Ramón Vargas, Ludovic Tézier; SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg / Marco Armiliato
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro
Blu-ray Disc, available now (Unitel / Salzburger Festspiele)
Anna Netrebko, Bo Skovhus,
Dorothea Röschmann, Ildebrando D’Arcangelo, Christine Schäfer, Eva Liebau; Wiener Philharmoniker /
Nikolaus Harnoncourt
The Berlin Concert: Live from the Waldbühne
Blu-ray Disc, available now
(Unitel)
Anna Netrebko, Plácido Domingo, Rolando Villazón; Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin / Marco Armiliato