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Dienstag, 30. März 2010

Reviews about Anna's concert yesterday 29th March) in Berlin

Wie Anna Netrebko die Berliner verführte (How Anna Netrebko seduced the people in Berlin)

Anna Netrebko - ohne Opernorchester, nur begleitet am Klavier von Daniel Barenboim. Die Berliner konnten am Montagabend die Primadonna in der längst ausverkauften Philharmonie pur erleben. Und sie verzauberte das Publikum mit ihrem Charme und vor allem mit vielen leisen Tönen. (Anna Netrebko - without opera orchestra, only accompanied by Daniel Barenboim on the piano. The people in Berlin had the possibility to hear the primadonna pure on Monday evening at the already for a long time sold-out Philharmonie. And she enchanted the audience with her charme and above-all her quiet tones.)

Diese Primadonna ist nach wie vor ein Ereignis: Anna Netrebko füllt locker die Philharmonie – und das mit weitgehend ungehörten Liedern von Rimsky-Korsakov und Tschaikowsky. Und auf Russisch. Irgendwann muss Klavierbegleiter Daniel Barenboim aufstehen und das Publikum bitten, nicht zwischen den einzelnen Romanzen zu klatschen.

La Netrebko braucht die Zurückhaltung, um sich in die melancholischen Miniaturen einzuschwingen. Das gelingt ihr wundervoll.

Die Netrebko, das Glamour-Girl der Klassik, kann sich auf ihren kultivierten, in den Höhen angenehm strahlenden Sopran, der seine russische Herkunft bei diesen Liedern natürlich nicht verleugnen will, verlassen.

Die ihr eigene lyrische Dunkelheit kann sie in den Kunstliedern der beiden russischen Großkomponisten vollmundig ausleben. Sie zelebriert die Grundstimmungen der russischen Seele. Manche könnte schillernder ausgedeutet sein.

Sie verführt mit dem Netrebko-Charme und vor allem mit vielen leisen Tönen. Am Ende jubelt das Publikum. Leider gibt es nur zwei Zugaben. Das löst Unmut beim Publikum aus. Genau genommen ist das das schönste Kompliment.



Comeback der schönen Mama (The beautiful mama's comeback)

Da ist sie also wieder. Frisch aus der Babypause. Rosiger und runder, als wir sie kennen. Nach ihrem Auftritt bei "Wetten dass...?", der Millionen Zuschauer begeisterte, präsentierte sich Anna Netrebko gestern an der Seite von Daniel Barenboim in Berlin. Und wie!

Im schulterfreien weißen Blümen-Kleid wickelte die 38-jährige Diva aus St. Petersburg die Zuhörer in der Philharmonie sofort um den Finger. Auf dem Programm: Lieder von Tschaikowsky und Rimsky-Korsakov, die auch auf ihrer neuen CD " In The Still Of The Night" zu hören sind, die sie mit Barenboim am Klavier eingespielt hat.Es war der erste Berlin-Auftritt der Diva nach der Geburt des kleinen Tiago Arua. Zuletzt hatte sie im November 2007 die Traviata an der Deutschen Oper gegeben. Im Herbst darauf kam der Nachwuchs. Jetzt ist Mama Anna wieder fleißig, viel unterwegs. Doch der Babyspeck, will irgendwie nicht weichen.Aber das stört doch niemanden. Vor uns steht eine in Schönheit erblühte Mama, die auch ihren Klavierpartner Barenboim beeindruckte. Neckisch, melancholisch, leidenschaftlich - die Netrebko bot alles, mindestens so gut wie in früheren Zeiten. Ihr Söhnchen scheint Annas berühmte Sopran-Stimme noch größer gemacht zu haben. Nicht schwierig, sich auszumalen, wem sie gestern das wunderschöne Wiegenlied von Peter Tschaikowsky widmete...

Freitag, 19. März 2010

Click at the picture to see the new created site for "In the Still of Night" (Remember release is on 26th March)


Dienstag, 18. August 2009

Sonntag, 9. August 2009

Anna's latest interview with the "FAZ"

It was mainly a fight

Anna Netrebko, 37, maybe the most famous soprano of our times, about her new roles, her changed voice and the life as a working mother

Anna Netrebko is in a hurry, like all working mothers. Sprinting on vertiginous heels through the "Brenner's Park" foyer in Baden-Baden, looking for a quiet place. In the flesh she's even more beautiful, more colourful and more graceful as on stage. The day before did she sing the "Iolanta" at the Baden-Baden Festspielhaus for the first time, a dramatic character role out of a in this country totaly unknown, late Tchaikovsky opera. We aren't elsewise used to such dark mottled notes of La Netreko. And also this is new: Next week is she going to sing for the first time a piano recital, on 12th August at the Rosengarten Mannheim, accompanied by Elena Bashkirova. Repeated on 17th August in Salzburg, this time accompanied by Bashkirova's husband Barenboim. No surprise, that there are speculations, that the most expensive opera voice of the presence is in the moult, Belcanto-Anna changes into the dramatic fach.

FAZ: Miss Netrebko, did you red already your "Iolanta" critics today ?

Netrebko: Unfortunately I understand not enough german. But they told me, the critics are all very good...

FAZ: One newspaper wrote that, they are missing the irony at the staging. Is there in this romantic, late opera of Piotr Tchaikovsky at all something like irony ?

Netrebko: Oh no ! I think, "Iolanta" isn't meant ironical at all. In fact is it a very sad story. It deals with a girl, who is blind, but doesn't know that she is blind...

FAZ:...and who can see again, when she falls in love. In opera this is exactely vice versa then in real life, there is as is well-known love blind. Amazing is the duet, where Iolanta and her lover are singing about the light. It's a question of pure lyric. An elegy, no virtuoso bel canto. Doesn't suit into your fach at all !

Netrebko: Right. But look, that's Tchaikovsky. A completely different score than by Verdi, different orchestrated, and I sing in Russian, too. Still I wouldn't say, that this isn't my fach. At the moment I just enlarge my repertoire for a few pieces. There are also hard roles, for example I want to study Donizetti's "Anna Bolena" and Gounod's "Marguerite", and maybe I will also soon sing Verdi's "Trovatore". But alongside of course still the ones I sang already before: Lucia, Violetta...So ,I believe, you can't call this a fach change. Singing "Iolanta" here was a big risk for me. The opera is unknown here in Germany, in contrast in Russia enormous popular, every child child knows it there, mainly the fantastic baritone aria (laughs). If I present a piece here for the first time and I have no idea if the people will like it or not, am I committed to do it as perfect as possible.


FAZ: The people are coming into the Festspielhaus for listing their Anna and they leave it and know more about Tchaikovsky. That's great ! Also La Bartoli does it like this, to commission her popularity for unknown pieces. Do you want to do even more into this direction ?

Netrebko: I think it is great to advertise unknown music. But in principle I didn't set this as a goal. I sing what I like to sing. And when I have an opportunity to work with Valery Gergiev, I take it. That I should sing the "Iolanta", was actually to be honest his suggestion. I had to learn the role in a few days, we had in all only five days of rehearsal. Gergiev helped me a lot.

FAZ: How did you get on with the staging ?

Netrebko: I like modern productions, cause they are more interessting. Unfortunately are they today talking about nothing else than the "director's theatre" and under this understand I that a director shivers everything, which he doesn't like in the piece, including the music. This "Iolanta" production here is different, it is modern, everything else then vintage, it works very well. What I don't like at all is if directors make the play realistic, minimalistic and grey. The real life is already ugly enough ! The people have to pay much money for going to the theater, so they want to see something else then there own grey life. Even if the play is sad, believe I that it is absolutely unnecessary, that the curtain opens and we see the same neon light like at the office. I ask you: What's that ? Theatre is theatre ! It has to show something else like the reality. Otherwise I had never had problems with crazy directors, who want to do me crazy things. At Willy Decker's "Traviata" in Salzburg for expample did I sang head first while lying on the sofa. Decker is one of the directors who you can trust at first go. He has the whole conception in his head and his conception makes sense.


fAZ: You will for Decker's sake also perform at the Ruhrtriennale this year. But you cancelled your next performance as "Traviata" at the Met in New York. Why ?

Netrebko: One reason is, that I don't want to repeat myself anymore. This applies especially for the Salzburger "Traviata" production, which was so successful, that everybody saw it already, all are knowing me like this. I love this play a lot, I love this staging, I know all it off pat. But I don't want experience that routine creeps in. I don't want to be one day one or two levels worse in this role, maybe even without realising itself. And I just don't believe in, that I am in exactely in this production once again as good as five years ago. Then rather something totaly different, a new challenge...

FAZ: You would have to sing it this time at the Met also without your intimate partner Villazón.

Netrebko: He would sure think about the routine like me.

FAZ: Do you believe, that Rolando Villazón can get a grip on his vocal crisis ? Will he ever sing with you again ?

Netrebko: In any case will he return on stage. I'm sure. It's all about the sake. He will sing one day again in fact then, if he wants to sing again.

FAZ: Also your voice has changed in the last years, in a positive way: She got more depth and more colours. This is of course up to your baby. Did your son change your singer life ?

Netrebko: Oh yes ! Since I have the baby, I want definitely to foreclose the half of my commitments. I have a familiy now. I am very happy with this. Tiag is a cute baby, he is always in a good temper. But we don't get to see Erwin very often...

FAZ: Erwin Schrott, your partner, is singing at the moment the Don Giovanni in Vienna...

Netrebko: Yes, he has his career, he has a great deal to do. But I have also my carerr and have a great deal to do, too. Well I often think, why do we have to live like this ? All the time seperated of each other ? Life is much too short, singing isn't anything. By no means do I want to give off Tiago to a Nanny, but if it's the time, that he should go to school, must I have found a solution.

FAZ: Your Lied recital in Mannheim and Salzburg is a surprise.

Netrebko: Right, this is new. Lieder singing is much harder than opera singing. I gave already earlier Lied recitals, too but if anything rare. For example I can sing a great program with Strauss Liedern. Now I will do for the first time Lieder by Rimski-Korsakov and Tchaikovsky. It was Daniel Barenboim's idea. These Russian Lieder are gorgeous, two of them did I already sang for the "Souvenirs" album, the others are all totaly new. It is a lot of work. In a moment at five do I have the first coaching.

FAZ: Would you also sing Schubert or Schumann Lieder, if Barenboim would ask you for ? He was successful with it by Villazón...

Netrebko: I don't think so. This is nothing for me and my voice. I love these Lieder, but I rather listen to.

FAZ: A few years ago did you else say, you would never sing Wagner. But now you fancy with the role of Elsa, right ?

Netrebko: Wagner doesn't need more power than Tchaikovsky, you can take it from me (laughs) ! Yes, it's right, I would love to sing Elsa, but I didn't learn the role yet, and there aren't concrete plans yet. Maybe I will sing her one day. Maybe it will never happen.

FAZ: And why don't you sing more modern repertoire ?

Netrebko: For example ?

FAZ: My manager interdicted me the "Lulu" (laughs) ! No kidding, I really wanted to sing this. There are also two men, who want imperative persuade me: Willy Decker
and Daniel Barenboim. But first of all I don't like the setting with the third act, which Barenboim wants imperative to do. Secondly did my manager, you advises me, discourage in this case. The Lulu is very difficult to sing, extremely high. Too high for me...

FAZ: You sing elsewise high roles, too.

Netrebko: Yes, but Lulu is definitely too high for me. I have to be careful. Look, my voice is rather going lower, my repertoire is anyway already today much too wide-ranged. If you look around, you will not find many sopranos who sing the Susanna in "Figaro" and the Lucia at the same time. I mustn't enforce it.

FAZ: You are an opera singer, but as idolized as a pop star. Netrebko become a trademark, a product. How do you get along with it, that you are regarded different, than you are actually ?

Netrebko: I close my ears, so that I don't hear, what I don't want to hear. I close my eyes, so that I don't have to read, what I don't want to read (laughs). You see, it's actually totaly easy.

FAZ: Should her son become a singer one day ?

Netrebko: By no means. He should get happy.

FAZ: But you are happy as an singer, or does that only look like this ?

Netrebko: Yes. I am happy. But when I take a look back on my career, if can say it like this, was it first of all a fight. The singer profession draines a lot of energy, we have to discipline us enormous. And you have to dispense with many. Actually is singing first of all an enormous work.

Donnerstag, 16. Juli 2009

Anna & Bryn - Let's rock Hamburg !


Anna Netrebko: Star soprano visits Hamburg

Summit at the Laeiszhalle

Two world stars - Anna Netrebko and the bass-baritone Bryn Terfel: On 09th September will be the classical concert of the year. The advance sale starts tomorrow at the Hamburger Abendblatts' ticket shops.

At the christening of the cruiser "Mein Schiff" was she in Hamburg, but without singing. Now are "Elbklassik", the Hamburg-based subsidiary company of the concert promoter Peter Schwenkow, and the Hamburger Abendblatt taking Anna Netrebko for one concert to the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg. On 09th September it's getting down there to a summit of that special kind: The Russian star soprano performs together with Bryn Terfel, the great Welsh bass-baritone, one of the most demanded exponents of his voice. Schwenkow could made this coup perfect after the by him organised Netrebko concert at the last friday at the Munich Königsplatz (14 500 audience). The advance sale for this evening starts on Friday morning at 08:00 a.m.

The singers' covenant was so short term, that the accompanying orchestra is not yet decided already, but till now only who will conduct the concert: the international seasoned maestro Emmanuel Villaume, who will become the director of the Slovenian philharmonics in September. Also the programme is not yet stipulated in all its particulars, but it could be geared to the Munich concerts' programme, where she was accompanied by the baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky. There were in the first half exclusively sang acts of Russian composers - cutouts of Tchaikovsky's operas "Pique Dame", "Iolanta" and "Eugene Onegin"as well as Michail Glinka's "Ruslan and Lydmila". The second part was more international with acts of Strauss and Wagner as well as cutouts out of operas of Verdi, Puccini, Mascagni and Leoncavallo.

Anna Netrebko rehearsals currently at Baden-Baden for the premiere of Tchaikovsky's opera "Iolanta" on 18th July and gives a Liederabend with Daniel Barenboim at the Salzburger Festspiele on 11th August.

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At Hamburg is the setting for this performance much more intimate than in Munich; the Laeiszhalle is a guarantor for a dignified concert atmosphere and a good acoustics - best condictions for savour two of the greatest voices of our times.


Tickets: 55- 285 Euro
Hamburger-Abendblatt- Ticket-Hotline: 040/30 30 98 98. (not forget the german prefix +49)
or
www.abendblatt.de/ticketshops
or

Freitag, 24. April 2009

State opera Berlin - Season schedule 2009/2010




























The state opera Berlin's season schedule 2009/2010 is finally published !

Click here for watching it =)

Well Rolando will be again during the Festtage the Lenski in Achim Freyer's production of Eugene Onegin, on 26th, 31st March, 02nd April and 05th June 2010 conducted by Daniel Barenboim and as we also know already will Anna give a Liederabend with Daniel Barenboim au piano on 29th March 2010 (By the way one day after my 20th birthday...^^)

Samstag, 4. April 2009

State opera Berlin: Festtage 2010 without premiere

State opera Berlin: Festtage 2010 without premiere

At the Lindenopera's eastern Festtage next year there will be no new production. Reason: There should be shown as much acts as possible in the last season before the redecoration and the move into the Schillertheater.

Next year will Daniel Barenboim conduct even three operas at the Lindenopera's eastern "Festtage": "Tristan und Isolde" (in Harry Kupfers production of the year 2000), "Eugen Onegin" (Achim Freyer, 2008) plus Verdi's "Simon Boccanegra", which will premiere this autumn. There will be no new production, because the opera wants to show as many acts as possible at the Unter den Linden in the last season before the redecoration and the move into to the Schillertheater. Since 1996 was it used to launch a new production at the Festtage and only show it two till three times - to be able to legitimate the extremely raised prices. This courted resentment of a lot Berlin opera fans, because they had to wait at any one time one year, for watching the act with normal prices.

Next to the three operas can 2010 concerts inter alia with Anna Netrebko, Maurizio Pollini as well as Christine Schäfer be experienced. A focus is devoted to the compositions Pierre Boulez's, conduct will Barenboim as well as the french composer himself. The advance sale starts this saturday. The this year's state opera's Festtage start likewise today with Wagner's "Lohengrin".

Recital/ Onegin Berlin 2010


Anna will give a recital together with Daniel Barenboim au piano and Rolando will be for 3 times Lensky again in the course of the Festtage at the state opera Berlin 2010. The prizes for Anna's recital is between 45 - 260 Euros and Rolando's Onegin is between 25 - 260 Euros.

Click here

The Onegin cast:

Conductor Daniel Barenboim
Performance | Staging | Lighting Achim Freyer
Costumes Lena Lukjanova
Amanda Freyer
Choirs Eberhard Friedrich

Larina Katharina Kammerloher
Tatjana Anna Samuil
Olga Maria Gortsevskaya
Filipjewna Margarita Nekrasova
Eugen Onegin Artur Rucinski
Lenski Rolando Villazón
Duke Gremin René Pape
Triquet Stephan Rügamer
Saretzki James Homann
Ein Hauptmann Fernando Javier Radó

Staatsopernchor
Staatskapelle Berlin


The dates:

Anna's Recital -> 29.03.2010
Eugene Onegin -> 26.03.2010; 31.03.2010; 02.04.2010

The ticket sell starts today !

Freitag, 3. April 2009

Anna Netrebko in the centre of the Festtage 2010

Anna Netrebko im Zentrum der Festtage 2010

Die Starsopranistin Anna Netrebko und der Dirigent und Komponist Pierre Boulez stehen im Mittelpunkt der Festtage der Staatsoper Unter den Linden 2010. Außerdem werden der Pianist Maurizio Pollini und die Sopranistin Christine Schäfer auftreten.
Auf dem Programm stehen desweiteren die Opern "Tristan und Isolde", "Eugen Onegin" und "Simon Boccanegra" unter der Leitung von Daniel Barenboim. Die Festtage im Frühjahr kommenden Jahres sind die letzten vor dem Umzug der Staatsoper in das Schiller Theater. Danach wird die Lindenoper bis 2013 saniert.

Anlässlich des 85. Geburtstags von Pierre Boulez werden unter anderem Daniel Barenboim und der Komponist selbst einige seiner Werke aufführen. Anna Netrebko wird bei einem Liederabend in Begleitung von Barenboim Werke russischer Komponisten des 19. Jahrhunderts präsentieren.
Die Festtage in der Staatsoper Unter den Linden wurden 1996 von Barenboim ins Leben gerufen. Die diesjährigen Festtage beginnen am morgigen Samstag mit Stefan Herheims Neuinszenierung von Richard Wagners "Lohengrin" unter der Leitung von Barenboim.

Translation...yes !...follows ;))

Dienstag, 11. November 2008

Rolando's benefit concert at the state opera Berlin

Here you can watch a video with many photos of Rolando's benefit concert with Daniel Barenboim as conductor on sunday at the state opera Berlin. Thanks a lot for posting to MySamoyeds !

Freitag, 24. Oktober 2008

Benefit concert

Rolando will sing at the benefit concert for the restoration of the state opera Berlin on 9th november in Berlin. The Staatskapelle will be conducted by Daniel Barenboim. For more information about the concert click here

Thanks to Parfisal for the information