Auditorio de Tenerife, Santa Cruz de Tenerife 7. Jan 2011

XXVII Festival de Música de Canarias
Auditorio de Tenerife, Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Friday 7. January 2011

PERFORMERS
Anna Netrebko, soprano
Erwin Schrott, bass-baritone
National Philharmonic of Russia
Vladimir Spivakov, conductor

PROGRAMME
1. Part
M. Glinka: Ruslan and Ludmila | Ochestral overture
M. Glinka: Ruslan and Ludmila | Ludmila's Cavatina, 1. Act | Anna Netrebko
W.A. Mozart: Don Giovanni | "Madamina, il catalogo è questo" | Erwin Schrott
C. Gounod: Faust | "O Dieu! Que de bijoux!... Ah! je ris de me voir si belle en ce miroir" | Anna Netrebko
C. Gounod: Faust | "Le veau d'or; est toujours débout!" | Erwin Schrott
G. Verdi: La forza del destino | Ochestral overture
G. Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore | "Udite, udite, o rustici" | Erwin Schrott
G. Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore | "Quanto amore! Ed io, spietata", Duet 2. Act | Anna Netrebko, Erwin Schrott

2. Part
L. Arditi: Il bacio | Anna Netrebko
F. Lehár: Die lustige Witwe | "Lippen Schweigen" | Anna Netrebko, Erwin Schrott
P. Mascagni | Cavalleria rusticana | Ochestral overture
G. Puccini: Gianni Schicchi | "O mio babbino caro" | Anna Netrebko
NN: nn | "nn" | Erwin Schrott
A. Dvorák: Rusalka | Song to the moon | Anna Netrebko
G. Gershwin: Porgy and Bess | "Bess, you is my woman now" | Anna Netrebko, Erwin Schrott

Encores
F. Lehár: Giuditta | “Meine Lippen, sie küssen so heiss” | Anna Netrebko
P. Ziegler: Rojo tango | Erwin Schrott
NN: | Anna Netrebko, Erwin Schrott

Reports
Hebert attended live the concet and kindly wrote the following report for the blog

Yes, I have done it. Yesterday I arrived at Santa Cruz, and tonight I have been to the concert of Anna and Erwin at the spectacular Auditorio de Tenerife. This building is unique. Outside it looks like a ship and like a huge wave, and the concert hall has an outstanding acoustic. I have never heard an orchestra play so clear like the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia with its conductor Vladimir Spivakov.

The concert was sold out (more than 1.600 people, many of them were German pensioners who spend the winter on the sunny “Canarias” with 23-25 degrees Celsius).

The programme was a bit unspectacular. Anna has sung most arias many times before (e.g. “Oh Dieu! Que de bijoux!” from Faust, “Il bacio”, “O mio babbino caro”, “Song to the moon” from Rusalka), but two of the three duets with Erwin Schrott were new: “Lippen schweigen” from the operetta Die lustige Witwe, and “Bess you is my woman now” from Porgy and Bess.

Anna seems to have the time of her life – her voice is brilliant, and the first thing she did when she entered the stage was to put the microphone, which was standing at her place, far away, because she did not need it.

In the first part she wore a wonderful dark-blue dress, and in the second part it was the pink dress she had worn e.g. in Vienna at Ioan Holenders farewell gala.

Because the audience was a bit “lame”, it took some time until the people woke up. The highlights of the evening were the three encores…

Anna began with “Meine Lippen, die küssen so heiss”. She had a bouquet of roses in her arms and threw rose buds into the audience. At the end of the song she threw the whole bouquet, and some lucky person caught it.

Erwin was to follow – he sang a tango and got huge ovations for it.

Finally the orchestra played a Spanish melody (Anna and Erwin were standing behind the orchestra and listened to the music), and this piece was full of fire – so at the end the whole audience stood up for standing ovations.

After the show I met Anna and Erwin at the stage door. I greeted Anna “from Carlos from Barcelona”, and she told me to send you her best regards!

I am going to attach some photos of the concert and also of the Auditorio (there has been one small change in the programme: Erwin did not sing “Votre toast” from Carmen, but something Spanish which I did not know).

Photos

Overview of the Auditorio de Tenerife, Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Photo: Herbert

Main entrance to the Auditorio de Tenerife, Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Photo: Herbert

Overview of the concert hall of the Auditorio de Tenerife, Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Photo: Herbert

Programme, Auditorio de Tenerife, Santa Cruz de Tenerife 7. Jan 2011. Photo: Herbert

Anna Netrebko and Vladimir Spivakov at the Auditorio de Tenerife, Santa Cruz de Tenerife 7. Jan 2011. Photo: Herbert

Erwin Schrott, Anna Netrebko and Vladimir Spivakov at the Auditorio de Tenerife, Santa Cruz de Tenerife 7. Jan 2011. Photo: Herbert

F. Lehár: Die lustige Witwe | "Lippen Schweigen" | Anna Netrebko, Erwin Schrott and Vladimir Spivakov at the Auditorio de Tenerife, Santa Cruz de Tenerife 7. Jan 2011. Photo: Herbert

 

G. Gershwin: Porgy and Bess | "Bess, you is my woman now" | Anna Netrebko, Erwin Schrott and Vladimir Spivakov at the Auditorio de Tenerife, Santa Cruz de Tenerife 7. Jan 2011. Photo: Herbert

Anna Netrebko, Erwin Schrott and Vladimir Spivakov at the Auditorio de Tenerife, Santa Cruz de Tenerife 7. Jan 2011. Photo: Herbert

F. Lehár: Giuditta | “Meine Lippen, sie küssen so heiss” | Anna Netrebko and Vladimir Spivakov at the Auditorio de Tenerife, Santa Cruz de Tenerife 7. Jan 2011. Photo: Herbert

Anna Netrebko and Vladimir Spivakov at the Auditorio de Tenerife, Santa Cruz de Tenerife 7. Jan 2011. Photo: Herbert

Anna Netrebko and Erwin Schrott at the Auditorio de Tenerife, Santa Cruz de Tenerife 7. Jan 2011. Photo: Herbert

Erwin Schrott, Anna Netrebko and Vladimir Spivakov at the Auditorio de Tenerife, Santa Cruz de Tenerife 7. Jan 2011. Photo: Herbert

Anna Netrebko and Erwin Schrott at the stage door, Auditorio de Tenerife, Santa Cruz de Tenerife 7. Jan 2011. Photo: Herbert

Anna Netrebko at the stage door, Auditorio de Tenerife, Santa Cruz de Tenerife 7. Jan 2011. Photo: Herbert

Anna Netrebko at the stage door, Auditorio de Tenerife, Santa Cruz de Tenerife 7. Jan 2011. Photo: Herbert

Anna Netrebko at the stage door, Auditorio de Tenerife, Santa Cruz de Tenerife 7. Jan 2011. Photo: Herbert

Anna Netebko and Erwin Schrott leaving the venue, Auditorio de Tenerife, Santa Cruz de Tenerife 7. Jan 2011. Photo: Herbert

Videoclips
Excerpts of the opening concert from www.GranCanariaTV.com


Anna Netrebko on the spanish TVE 1 news


Anna Netrebko on the spanish TVE Canarias news