Anna Netrebko’s first US Traviata in SF and La bohème film in US theaters
On June 13,
Anna Netrebko
returns to San Francisco Opera – where she made her US debut in 1995 in Glinka’s Ruslan
and Lyudmila – to
sing her first U.S. performances as Violetta Valery in Verdi’s La
traviata.
Maestro Donald Runnicles, a longtime colleague of Netrebko’s, conducts in his final production
as Music Director of the San Francisco Opera. It has been five years since the
Russian soprano last performed with the company, where she was once a young
artist in the Merola Opera Program. Opera fans will recall her portrayal
of the Verdi heroine in the internationally acclaimed 2005 Salzburg Festival
production by Willy Decker, which is available on DVD and on
CD in both highlights and full-length
versions (the latter of which received a Grammy nomination in 2006). San
Francisco Opera’s Marta Domingo production of La traviatastarring Anna Netrebkoopens on Saturday, June 13, 2009, with further performances onJune 16, 19, 25, and 28.
Netrebko next comes to the US in December for a new Bartlett Sher production of Les contes
d’Hoffmann at
the Metropolitan Opera; those not able to wait until then for their Netrebko
fix will be rewarded in September when a feature film of Puccini’s La
bohème,
starring the Russian soprano and tenor Rolando Villazón, is released in theaters in select
markets across America. The movie
is directed by Oscar- and Emmy-nominated director Robert Dornhelm and was filmed
in early 2008 in Vienna.
The
theatrical trailer for La bohème can be seen at http://www.laboheme-derfilm.de/.
According
to Emerging Pictures, the film’s distributor in the U.S., La bohème is scheduled to be shown in
theaters in select cities on September 23 and 24. Deutsche Grammophon will release a highlights version of Anna Netrebko’s
acclaimed recording of the Puccini opera to coincide with the film’s
screenings. The full-length
version of the recording, which was released in the U.S. last fall, is used as
the movie’s soundtrack.
The Times, in its review of Netrebko’s full-length
recording of La bohème, asserts, “It is succulently dramatic – a
tribute … to the stars’ power.”
The San Francisco Chronicle wrote:
“[Villazón] sounds relaxed and lyrical as the young poet. His high notes in the
climaxes are vibrant and attacked cleanly . . . Netrebko, too, is in
excellent voice, her gleaming soprano filling out Mimi’s wistful phrases with
grace and sensitivity.”
More details regarding the film’s release will be
announced in the coming weeks. Updates
regarding the exact schedules and locations, as well as a list of participating
venues, will be posted at operaincinema.com.
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Anna
Netrebko: recent press features
Sultry
soprano Netrebko prepares for ‘La Traviata’ in San Francisco
San Jose
Mercury News – June
9, 2009
By Richard
Scheinin
http://www.mercurynews.com/topstories/ci_12547693
Anna
Netrebko lights up stage in ‘La Traviata’
The San
Francisco Examiner
– June 8, 2009
By Jason
Victor Serinus
http://www.sfexaminer.com/entertainment/The-diva-speaks–47172207.html
Anna
Netrebko, coming to SF, has taken the opera world by sultry storm. Here’s how
…
Sacramento
Bee – June 7, 2009
By Edward
Ortiz
http://www.sacbee.com/entertainment/story/1920618.html
Anna
Netrebko: new and recent releases
Souvenirs
CD and
deluxe CD (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
Released
September 2008
Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi
2-CD set (Deutsche Grammophon)
Anna Netrebko, Elina Garanca, Joseph Calleja, Robert Gleadow, Tiziano Bracci;
Wiener Symphoniker / Fabio Luisi; Wiener Singakademie
Released May 2009
Puccini:
La bohème
CD
(Deutsche Grammophon)
Original
soundtrack of the opera movie (highlights version)
Anna
Netrebko, Rolando Villazón, Boaz Daniel, Nicole Cabell, Stéphane Degout,
Vitalij Kowaljow; Symphonieorchesterdes Bayerischen Rundfunks / Bertrand de
Billy; Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Coming September
2009
Anna Netrebko: upcoming appearances
June 13, 16, 19, 25, & 28, 2009
San Francisco Opera
La traviata /
Violetta
July 18, 21, 24, & 27, 2009
Festspielhaus Baden-Baden
Iolantha / title
role
August 12, 2009
Mannheim Rosengarten
Recital (pianist TBA)
August 17, 2009
Salzburg Festival
Recital with Daniel Barenboim
September 13, 2009
Ruhrtriennale Festival
Concert
September 18, 2009
Scandinavian tour, Copenhagen
Emmanuel Villaume, conductor
September 21, 2009
Scandinavian tour, Oslo
Emmanuel Villaume, conductor
September 24, 2009
Scandinavian tour, Stockholm
Emmanuel Villaume, conductor
October 1, 2009
Salle Pleyel, Paris
Duo concert with Massimo Giordano
October 10, 15, 20, 23, 2009
Opera de Paris
L’elisir d’amore
/ Adina
December 3, 7, 11, 16, 19, 23, 26, 30, 2009; January 2, 2010
Metropolitan Opera
Les contes d’Hoffmann / Antonia
January
20, 24, 26, 29; February 1, 4, 7, 10, 13, 2010
Opera de
Paris
Idomeneo / Elettra
February 20, 24, 27; March 2, 6, 10, 13, 17, 20, 2010
Metropolitan Opera
La bohème / Mimi
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21C Media Group, June 2009