Anna Netrebko, Salle Gaveau, Paris 3. May 2012

Tonight Anna Netrebko and Elena Bashkirova at the piano have given a recital of Russian songs by Tchaikovsky and Rimski-Korsakov at the Salle Gaveau, Paris.

REPORTS
This is the report kindly written by Herbert for the Blog

Although Anna’s performances are always on a constant top level, there are some evenings like yesterday at the Salle Gaveau in Paris, which are more than extraordinary. Her recital of Russian songs of Rimski-Korsakov and Tchaikovski, accompanied by pianist Elena Bashkirova, was unique and unforgettable. I heard the same programme, when she sang it for the first (?) time in Mannheim, and meanwhile she has increased her expressivity in such a way that it is simply unbelievable. She does not only sing and interpret these songs, she LIVES them on stage. I don’t understand the Russian language, but it was absolutely clear what each song was about – love, joy, hope, anxiety, despair, death, … 

The Salle Gaveau is a comfortable, old-fashioned and prestigious concert hall, built in 1907, mainly for piano and chamber music. Today it has about 1000 seats, which were completely sold out yesterday. There were many Russian people in the audience. The audience had “two faces”. Some people were very undisciplined, at least at the beginning. They took many photos with flash even during the concert, and a small group applauded after each song, until there was a loud “Shhhhhhhhhh!!!”. Anna was grateful for this “help”, and after the interval everybody kept quiet, so the breathless intensity and tension could explode after each cycle.

I’m afraid this old building was in danger to collapse because of Anna’s overwhelming voice and because of the rhythmical hand-clapping, the cheers and the foot-stamping of the audience which got completely out-of control at the end. Anna is used to applause, but yesterday even she couldn’t believe what was happening in front of her. Daniel Barenboim was sitting in row 5, and when she recognized him, she winked at him and blew him a kiss.

My favourite songs were – oh there were so many. But if I have to name two, it would be two songs by Tchaikovski, “Otcego?” (“Why?”) and “Serenada” (“Sérénade”). The first is a song of questions and of growing intensity and despair – Why are the roses so pale? Why does the bird in the sky sing so sad? Why am I more cheerless and more sick each day? And then the final question, which answers all the other questions: Why, oh tell me, have you left and forgotten me? Even Anna herself was touched and deeply moved after the last tone.

The other song, “Serenada”, is quite different, a light-hearted, melodical song, which Anna underlined by many funny gestures like a perfect actress, which made the audience laugh – well, she IS a perfect actress, of course!

At the end, she and Elena Bashkirova had to add four encores – or were it five? – among them a “gipsy lullaby” by Dvorak and two lieder by Strauss; I think she has never sung “Cäcilia” with such a power and so much energy like yesterday!

When she asked the audience what she should sing next, somebody shouted “Manon”, but Anna answered: “No sorry, that’s another four hours”. The next suggestion was “Iolanta”, and Anna replied: “Yes, but in November!”.

After the show many people were standing outside the building and were discussing this, yes, really unforgettable evening.

After some time Anna left the building through a side-door, and three young Russian girls ran to her to take pictures with her. Anna was beaming with joy and satisfaction, she talked with her “fellow countrywomen”, kissed them and was as amazing as she was on stage.

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PHOTOS

Entrance to the Salle Gaveau, Paris 3. May 2012. Photo: Herbert

Entrance to the Salle Gaveau, Paris 3. May 2012. Photo: Herbert

Poster of the recital of Anna Netrebko at Salle Gaveau, Paris 3. May 2012. Photo: Herbert

Sold out recital of Anna Netrebko at Salle Gaveau, Paris 3. May 2012. Photo: Herbert

Recital of Anna Netrebko at Salle Gaveau, Paris 3. May 2012. Photo: Herbert

Anna Netrebko and Elena Bashkirova, Salle Gaveau, Paris 3. May 2012. Photo: Herbert

Anna Netrebko and Elena Bashkirova, Salle Gaveau, Paris 3. May 2012. Photo: Anne-Laure

Anna Netrebko, Salle Gaveau, Paris 3. May 2012. Photo: Herbert

Anna Netrebko, Salle Gaveau, Paris 3. May 2012. Photo: Anne-Laure

Anna Netrebko, Salle Gaveau, Paris 3. May 2012. Photo: Anne-Laure

Anna Netrebko, Salle Gaveau, Paris 3. May 2012. Photo: Anne-Laure

Anna Netrebko, Salle Gaveau, Paris 3. May 2012. Photo: Anne-Laure

Salle Gaveau, Paris 3. May 2012. Photo: Herbert

Salle Gaveau, Paris 3. May 2012. Photo: Herbert

Anna Netrebko and Elena Bashkirova, Salle Gaveau, Paris 3. May 2012. Photo: Anne-Laure

Anna Netrebko and Elena Bashkirova, Salle Gaveau, Paris 3. May 2012. Photo: Anne-Laure

Anna Netrebko and Elena Bashkirova, Salle Gaveau, Paris 3. May 2012. Photo: Anne-Laure

Anna Netrebko and Elena Bashkirova, Salle Gaveau, Paris 3. May 2012. Photo: Herbert

Anna Netrebko and Elena Bashkirova, Salle Gaveau, Paris 3. May 2012. Photo: Herbert

Anna Netrebko and Elena Bashkirova, Salle Gaveau, Paris 3. May 2012. Photo: Herbert

Anna Netrebko and Elena Bashkirova, Salle Gaveau, Paris 3. May 2012. Photo: Anne-Laure

Anna Netrebko, Salle Gaveau, Paris 3. May 2012. Photo: Herbert

Anna Netrebko, Salle Gaveau, Paris 3. May 2012. Photo: Herbert

Anna Netrebko, Salle Gaveau, Paris 3. May 2012. Photo: Herbert

Anna Netrebko, Salle Gaveau, Paris 3. May 2012. Photo: Herbert

Anna Netrebko, Salle Gaveau, Paris 3. May 2012. Photo: Herbert

Anna Netrebko, Salle Gaveau, Paris 3. May 2012. Photo: Herbert

Anna Netrebko, Salle Gaveau, Paris 3. May 2012. Photo: Herbert

Anna Netrebko, Salle Gaveau, Paris 3. May 2012. Photo: Anne-Laure 

Anna Netrebko, Salle Gaveau, Paris 3. May 2012. Photo: Anne-Laure

Anna Netrebko, Salle Gaveau, Paris 3. May 2012. Photo: Anne-Laure

Anna Netrebko, Salle Gaveau, Paris 3. May 2012. Photo: Herbert

Anna Netrebko, Salle Gaveau, Paris 3. May 2012. Photo: Herbert

Anna Netrebko, Salle Gaveau, Paris 3. May 2012. Photo: Herbert

Anna Netrebko, Salle Gaveau, Paris 3. May 2012. Photo: Herbert

Anna Netrebko will sing Iolanta at Salle Pleyel, Paris 11. Nov 2012

As part of the Iolanta's European Tour, Anna Netrebko will sing the title role of Tchaikovsky's 1-act opera masterpiece at Salle Pleyel, Paris on 11. Nov 2012.

PROGRAMME

IOLANTA
Piotr Ilitch Tchaïkovski

Salle Pleyel, Paris
Sunday 11/11/2012 16:00

Anna Netrebko : soprano
Sergey Skorokhodov : ténor
Alexei Markov : baryton
Vitali Kowaljow : basse
Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra
Slovenian Chamber Choir

Emmanuel Villaume : direction

Anna Netrebko will sing in a concert in Toulouse in May 2011

It has been announced today by La Depeche.fr that Anna Netrebko will give a concert of arias by Pergolesi at the Halle aux Grains, Toulouse in May 2011. Anna Netrebko will be accompanied on the stage by the English Chamber Orchestra.

Full details of the programme and tickets will be available on 2. June 2010 at Les Grandes Interprètes.

This concert will take place just a few days after the concert of arias by Pergolesi that Anna Netrebko will give at the Salle Pleyel, Paris on 26. April 2011, also with the English Chamber Orchestra.

Anna Netrebko | 2010-2011 Season

Anna Netrebko will return to Salle Pleyel to sing Arias by Pergolesi

The new Season 2010-2011 at Salle Pleyel, Paris, has been presented today and it will be uploaded tomorrow morning at the Salle Pleyel website.

Anna Netrebko will return to the Salle Pleyel to sing in a Concert of Arias by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi and other italian baroque composers on Tuesday 26. April 2011.

Anna Netrebko sang the Stabat Mater by Pergolesi with Ekaterina Semenchuk at the Great Hall of the Moscow State Conservatory in Moscow on 28. October 2007 and with Andreas Scholl at the Wiener Musikverein in Wien on 4. and 6. November 2007. Anna Netrebko will sing again the Stabat Mater by Pergolesi this summer at the Baden-Baden Gala 2010 to be held at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden on 27. and 29. July 2010 with Antonio Pappano conducting the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.

Anna Netrebko made her debut at Salle Pleyel in a concert of arias and duets with italian tenor Massimo Giordano and Keri-Lynn Wilson conducting the Orchestre National d'Île-de-France on 1. October 2009.

L'Elisir d'Amore, Opera Bastille, Paris 23. Oct 2009

Yesterday it was the fourth and last performance of the run with Anna Netrebko of Donizetti's "l'Elisir d'Amore" at Opera Bastille, Paris, starring Anna Netrebko as Adina, Giuseppe Filianoti as Nemorino, George Petean as Belcore, Paolo Gavanelli as Dulcamara and Jaël Azzaretti as Gianetta. Paolo Arrivabeni was conducting the Orchetra and Chorus of the Opera National de Paris. This is a coproduction with the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, staged by Laurent Pelly.

Anna sang with a cold the last two performances and it was the concern to see if she would be able to sing her last performance of the run. Fortunately, finally she was not sick and, in fact, she sang at her best!

L'Elisir d'Amore
Melodramma Giocoso in 2 Acts (1832)
Music by Gaetano Donizetti
Libretto by Felice Romani after that of Eugène Scribe for Daniel Auber's Le Philtre

Opera Bastille, Paris 23. October 2009

Cast
Adina: Anna Netrebko
Nemorino: Giuseppe Filianoti
Belcore: George Petean
Il Dottor Dulcamara: Paolo Gavanelli
Giannetta: Jaël Azzaretti

Production
Musical Director: Paolo Arrivabeni
Stage Director and Costumes: Laurent Pelly
Sets: Chantal Thomas
Lighting: Joël Adam
Dramaturgy and collaboration with the Stage Director: Agathe Mélinand
Chorus Master: Alessandro Di Stefano

Orchestre et Choeur de l’Opéra National de Paris
Coproduction of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London

About the Opera
L'Elisir d'Amore in Wikipedia [English]
L'Elisir d'Amore: Synopsis [English]
L'Elisir d'Amore: Libretto [Italian]

Reports

Photos
Paolo Gavanelli and Jaël Azzaretti at the final curtain calls. L'Elisir d'Amore, Opera Bastille, Paris 23. Oct 2009. Photo: Anne

Anna Netrebko and George Petean at the final curtain calls. L'Elisir d'Amore, Opera Bastille, Paris 23. Oct 2009. Photo: Anne

Anna Netrebko at the final curtain calls. L'Elisir d'Amore, Opera Bastille, Paris 23. Oct 2009. Photo: Anne

Anna Netrebko, Giuseppe Filianoti and George Petean at the final curtain calls. L'Elisir d'Amore, Opera Bastille, Paris 23. Oct 2009. Photo: Anne

Anna Netrebko, Giuseppe Filianoti and George Petean at the final curtain calls. L'Elisir d'Amore, Opera Bastille, Paris 23. Oct 2009. Photo: Anne

Anna Netrebko and George Petean at the final curtain calls. L'Elisir d'Amore, Opera Bastille, Paris 23. Oct 2009. Photo: Anne

Anna Netrebko, Giuseppe Filianoti, George Petean, Paolo Gavanelli, Jaël Azzaretti and Paolo Arrivabeni at the final curtain calls. L'Elisir d'Amore, Opera Bastille, Paris 23. Oct 2009. Photo: Anne

Anna Netrebko, Giuseppe Filianoti, George Petean and Paolo Arrivabeni at the final curtain calls. L'Elisir d'Amore, Opera Bastille, Paris 23. Oct 2009. Photo: Anne

Anna Netrebko and Paolo Arrivabeni at the final curtain calls. L'Elisir d'Amore, Opera Bastille, Paris 23. Oct 2009. Photo: Anne

Anna Netrebko at the final curtain calls. L'Elisir d'Amore, Opera Bastille, Paris 23. Oct 2009. Photo: Anne

Giuseppe Filianoti at the stage door after the performance. L'Elisir d'Amore, Opera Bastille, Paris 23. Oct 2009. Photo: Anne

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L'Elisir d'Amore, Opera Bastille, Paris 20. Oct 2009

Yesterday it was the third performance of the run with Anna Netrebko of Donizetti's "l'Elisir d'Amore" at Opera Bastille, Paris, starring Anna Netrebko as Adina, Giuseppe Filianoti as Nemorino, George Petean as Belcore, Paolo Gavanelli as Dulcamara and Jaël Azzaretti as Gianetta. Paolo Arrivabeni was conducting the Orchetra and Chorus of the Opera National de Paris. This is a coproduction with the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, staged by Laurent Pelly.

The last performance of the run with Anna Netrebko is scheduled on 23. October 2009.

L'Elisir d'Amore
Melodramma Giocoso in 2 Acts (1832)
Music by Gaetano Donizetti
Libretto by Felice Romani after that of Eugène Scribe for Daniel Auber's Le Philtre

Opera Bastille, Paris 20. October 2009

Cast
Adina: Anna Netrebko
Nemorino: Giuseppe Filianoti
Belcore: George Petean
Il Dottor Dulcamara: Paolo Gavanelli
Giannetta: Jaël Azzaretti

Production
Musical Director: Paolo Arrivabeni
Stage Director and Costumes: Laurent Pelly
Sets: Chantal Thomas
Lighting: Joël Adam
Dramaturgy and collaboration with the Stage Director: Agathe Mélinand
Chorus Master: Alessandro Di Stefano

Orchestre et Choeur de l’Opéra National de Paris
Coproduction of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London

About the Opera
L'Elisir d'Amore in Wikipedia [English]
L'Elisir d'Amore: Synopsis [English]
L'Elisir d'Amore: Libretto [Italian]

Reports
Anne-Laure has attended also the third performance of the run with Anna Netrebko of l'Elisir d'Amore at Opera Bastille on 20. Oct 2009 and she wrote the following short report:

What an incredible evening. Anna took a little time to warm up during her first aria (I found out why later), but after that, she delivered a truly great performance. She got a totally deserved and huge ovation after her aria in the second act (which was breathtaking, as usual). The audience granted her a storm of "bravos" and applauses that lasted and then... were made in rythm! I've never heard that before in Bastille! It's very very rare!!! She made the audience go mad by her fantastic singing, her incredible voice, her joy and her charisma. She was funny, moving and sang magnificently. She made the audience left the theater with a huge smile on the face. Thanks to her.

And you won't believe it but she was really sick. She was barely able to speak the morning of the performance and she had a hoarseness that one could really notice when she spoke. That's why she took a little time to warm.

This woman/artist is fantastic. A great person. Moreover, she is so natural and nice that one can only love her. Filianoti too was ill (but it was a little bit difficult for him). Nevertheless they sang (and how she did it???!!!)! Respect and Bravi.

On-line Reports
Анна Нетребко на сеновале Бастилии - By Виктор Игнатов, ng.ru 22. Oct 2009 [Russian] **

Photos
Anna Netrebko and George Petean. L'Elisir d'Amore, Opera Bastille, Paris 20. Oct 2009. Photo: Delphine

Anna Netrebko and Giuseppe Filianoti. L'Elisir d'Amore, Opera Bastille, Paris 20. Oct 2009. Photo: Delphine

Anna Netrebko, Giuseppe Filianoti and George Petean. L'Elisir d'Amore, Opera Bastille, Paris 20. Oct 2009. Photo: Delphine

Anna Netrebko and Paolo Gavanelli. L'Elisir d'Amore, Opera Bastille, Paris 20. Oct 2009. Photo: Delphine

Anna Netrebko and Giuseppe Filianoti. L'Elisir d'Amore, Opera Bastille, Paris 20. Oct 2009. Photo: Delphine

Videoclips
Anna Netrebko and Paolo Gavanelli in L'Elisir d'Amore, Opera Bastille, Paris 20. Oct 2009


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