IOLANTA
Music by P. I. Tchaikovsky
Concert opera performance
Salle Pleyel, Paris 11. Nov 2012
Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra
Slovenian Chamber Choir
Janez Podlesek, concert master
Emmanuel Villaume, conductor
Soloists
Anna Netrebko, Jolanta, blind daughter of King René
Sergey Skorokhodov, Count Vaudémont, Burgundy Knight
Lucas Meachem, Robert, Duke of Burgundy
Vitalij Kovaljow, René, Provençal king
Luka Debevec Mayer, Bertrand, manager of the manor
JunHo You, Almeric, squire of King René
Nuška Rojko, Laura, Jolantina friend
Monica Bohinec, Martha, wife of Bertrand, Jolantina nurse
Theresa Plut, Brigitte, Jolantina friend
Vassily Savenko, Ibn-Hakia, doctor
REPORT
Herbert attended the performance of Iolanta at Salle Pleyel and he wrote the following remarks: "The French audience was 10 times more enthusiastic at the end than Ljubljana and Munich together!!! And the production is getting better and better. And by the way - Anna looked stunning today, in a new, pink dress by Oscar de la Renta (a nice lady asked her at the stage door). "
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Iolanta, Salle Pleyel, Paris 11. Nov 2012. Photo: Herbert
Iolanta, Salle Pleyel, Paris 11. Nov 2012. Photo: Herbert
Iolanta, Salle Pleyel, Paris 11. Nov 2012. Photo: Herbert
Iolanta, Salle Pleyel, Paris 11. Nov 2012. Photo: Herbert
Iolanta, Salle Pleyel, Paris 11. Nov 2012. Photo: Herbert
Iolanta, Salle Pleyel, Paris 11. Nov 2012. Photo: Hélène Jeanneret
Iolanta, Salle Pleyel, Paris 11. Nov 2012. Photo: Hélène Jeanneret
Iolanta, Salle Pleyel, Paris 11. Nov 2012. Photo: Hélène Jeanneret
Iolanta, Salle Pleyel, Paris 11. Nov 2012. Photo: Hélène Jeanneret
Iolanta, Salle Pleyel, Paris 11. Nov 2012. Photo: Hélène Jeanneret
Iolanta, Salle Pleyel, Paris 11. Nov 2012. Photo: Hélène Jeanneret
Iolanta, Salle Pleyel, Paris 11. Nov 2012. Photo: Hélène Jeanneret
Iolanta, Salle Pleyel, Paris 11. Nov 2012. Photo: Hélène Jeanneret
Iolanta, Salle Pleyel, Paris 11. Nov 2012. Photo: Hélène Jeanneret
Anna Netrebko, Iolanta, Salle Pleyel, Paris 11. Nov 2012. Photo: Herbert
Anna Netrebko, Iolanta, Salle Pleyel, Paris 11. Nov 2012. Photo: Herbert
Anna Netrebko, Iolanta, Salle Pleyel, Paris 11. Nov 2012. Photo: Herbert
Anna Netrebko, Iolanta, Salle Pleyel, Paris 11. Nov 2012. Photo: Herbert
Anna Netrebko, Iolanta, Salle Pleyel, Paris 11. Nov 2012. Photo: Herbert
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
On Saturday 12. March 2011 Salle Pleyel was making a public announcement of the new season 2011-2012. Blogger Opera Cake was there during the live presentation and he was posting live the main aspects of the new season. At that point it was announced that Anna Netrebko and Erwin Schrott were scheduled to give a join concert on 31. Jan 2012. Collecting the information provided live by Opera Cake we published here the available information about this concert.
On Monday 14. March 2011, the new 2011-2012 season was published on the Salle Pleyel website. As it had been first announced by Opera Cake and shortly after here, the season included as one of the highlights the concert of Anna Netrebko and Erwin Schrott on 31. Jan 2012. I am aware that people had started to book some performances for the new season at this point. The first surprise came when they had booked for a Netrebko/Schrott concert and instead they got their booking confirmation for a Netrebko solo concert, without Schrott. Just a few days after the official announcement of the new season, Salle Pleyel had modified the information initially provided for this concert, removing the name of Schrott from the concert, while keeping just Netrebko. No further details of the concert, such as the orchestra, piano player or the programme, were given.
On Wednesday 16. March 2011 I got a first reliable information that in fact nor Schrott, nor Netrebko had this concert in their schedules. All the alarms were on! I asked Salle Pleyel to confirm Netrebko's concert on that date and I got their confirmation through their official Facebook site. Further confirmations came to me on the opposite way and, at that point, I was able to absolutely confirm that neither Netrebko had this concert on her schedule. I wrote an email to Salle Pleyel let them know that according to the reliable information I had, the concert they were still announcing was not on Netrebko's schedule. No answers yet from Salle Pleyel about this point. In fact at that moment they still have the concert announced as it was.
According to the information I have Netrebko would be scheduled at Salle Pleyel for a later date.
Meanwhile, Schrott has been confirming all those points through his twitter account: "Anna will be performing at Salle Pleyel later on, but not on that dat,. I'm affraid. Their mistake, not ours"
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 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.
The Russian-Austrian soprano Anna Netrebko and the Italian tenor Massimo Giordano, with Keri-Lynn Wilson conducting the Orchestre National d'Île-de-France, have been performing in a debut concert at the Salle Pleyel, Paris on 1. October 2009, within the series Les Grandes Voix.
Programme
Anna Netrebko, soprano
Massimo Giordano, tenor
Orchestre National d'Île-de-France
Keri-Lynn Wilson, conductor
Salle Pleyel, Paris 1. Oct 2009
1. Part
Charles Gounod: Overture, "Roméo et Juliette", Orchestra Charles Gounod: "Va! Je t´ai pardonné... Nuit d'hyménée" from "Roméo et Juliette", Anna Netrebko and Massimo Giordano Giuseppe Verdi: Overture, "Nabucco", Orchestra Gaetano Donizetti: "Regnava nel silenzio" from "Lucia di Lammermoor", Anna Netrebko Gaetano Donizetti: "Una furtiva lagrima" from "L´Elisir d´Amore", Massimo Giordano Gaetano Donizetti: "Caro elisir! Sei mio!... Esulti pur la barbara" from "L'Elisir d'Amore", Anna Netrebko and Massimo Giordano
2. Part
Luigi Arditi: "Il bacio", Anna Netrebko Francesco Paolo Tosti: "L'alba separa dalla luce l'ombra", Massimo Giordano Piotr I. Tchaikovsky: "Polonaise" from "Eugen Onegin", Orchestra Piotr I. Tchaikovsky: "Kuda, Kuda" from "Eugen Onegin", Massimo Giordano Antonín Dvorak: "Song to the moon" from "Rusalka", Anna Netrebko Giacomo Puccini: "Intermezzo" from "Manon Lescaut", Orchestra Giacomo Puccini: "Che gelida manina" from "La Bohème", Massimo Giordano Giacomo Puccini: "Si, mi chiamamo Mimi" from "La Bohème", Anna Netrebko Giacomo Puccini: "O soave fanciulla" from "La Bohème", Anna Netrebko and Massimo Giordano
Encores Franz Lehar: "Meine Lippen, sie küssen so heiss" from "Giuditta", Anna Netrebko Salvatore Cardillo: "Core'ngrato", Massimo Giordano Giuseppe Verdi: "Brindisi" from "La Traviata", Anna Netrebko and Massimo Giordano
Personal Report
This Thursday I attended the concert of Anna Netrebko and Massimo Giordano at the Salle Pleyel in Paris. I had a pretty good seat at the third row on the left-hand-side of the stage. From such a position you can really enjoy all the details of the performance, getting the singers really close and being able to see all the reactions and indications of the conductor to both the singers and members of the orchestra.
At 8:00 PM the members of the Orchestre d'Île de France started to come on stage and take their seats. Then the Canadian conductor Keri-Lynn Wilson came also on stage taking her position on the pitch. The silence filled the auditorium and the orchestra started to play the first notes of the Overture of Gounod's Roméo et Juliette. The sound was very good and Keri-Lynn Wilson was conducting getting the better from the orchestra.
The orchestral introduction to the fourth act of Roméo et Juliette followed the Overture, while Anna Netrebko and Massimo Giordano came to the stage, acting as if it was a staged opera peformance. Anna was coming from the left-hand-side of the stage, walking just in front of me, while Massimo came from the right-hand-side, meeting both of them at the center of the stage, to the left-hand-side of the conductor. Anna was looking absolutely stunning, wearing the beautiful black dress by Escada that she has been wearing in her last concerts. I had already saw pictures of her wearing this dress, but when you see her live and in a short-distance, believe me, it was something completely different and absolutley stunning! The space on the stage left for the singers was quite narrow and the first violin did move back a little bit trying to leave more space for them. Anna started to sing the duet "Va! Je t'ai pardonné... Nuit d'hyménée" and everybody in the auditorium realized that they were attending an outstanding performance. The duet was fantastic and the chemistry and complicity between Anna and Massimo was evident since the beginning. Keri-Lynn Wilson was always taking control of everything, singing for herself, smiling to the different sections of the orchestra and giving the entrance to the singers. It was just the first vocal performance of the night and the reaction of the public was spectacular! A storm of applauses and bravi came at the end of the duet. Yeah! A very special evening had just started!
After the Overture of Verdi's Nabucco one of the best moments of the concert. Anna came on stage to sing "Regnava nel silenzio" from Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor. She was absolutely outstanding, singing and acting, filling the auditorium with powerful high notes and leaving breathless the public with wonderful pianisimi. And to an outstanding performance, what else than an outstanding reaction of the public. Huge amount of applauses and loud brava! brava!. Anna left the stage but the public still was applauding and she came back to ackowledge the public ovations. As Anna said later on at the stage door, the audience was really fantastic.
Afer the dramatic interpretation of Lucia, Massimo came on stage to sing the Nemorino's aria "Una furtiva lagrima" from Donizetti's "L'Elisir d'Amore". He did a pretty much moving interpretation, acting and singing, getting also a lot of applauses from the audience. Anna joined Massimo on stage to sing the funny duet "Caro elisir! Sei mio!... Esulti pur la barbara". This was one of the best moments of the evening too. Anna was sitting and singing just in front of my seat. So wonderful moment! At the end, spectacular reaction of the public. The whole auditorium of Salle Pleyel was already crazy about her!
The second part of the concert started with Anna singing "Il bacio". Now she was wearing the same pink and black dress by Escada, with a big necklace, that she had been wearing in most of her recent performances. Massimo followed her singing the beautiful song "L'alba separa dalla luce l'ombra" by Tosti.
After the orchestra played the "Polonaise" from Eugene Onegin, Massimo came on stage to sing the wonderful aria "Kuda, Kuda" from the same opera. This was one of his best moments of the evening, emotionally sung and moving. The audience gave to him also a lot of applauses which were not stopped when he left the stage, making him to come back. From my seat it was evident that Massimo was quite moved when he left the stage.
Another magical moment of the evening was coming next, with Anna, driving us to heaven, singing to the perfection "Song to the moon" from Dvorak's Rusalka. The public was breathless and the atmosphere she created was unforgettable.
The orchestra played next the "Intermezzo" from Puccini's Manon Lescaut. Keri-Lynn Wilson was able once again to get the best of them.
The official part of the concert ended with the final scene of the first act of Puccini's La Bohème. Another great moments of the evening, for me one of the best for sure. Anna is a wonderful Mimí as it was clearly shown this year in Munich and Massimo was a great Rodolfo. The public was like crazy. Huge amount of bravi and standing ovations lasting for seevral minutes.
As expected, they were three encores, but this times it was Anna the first to came to the stage for the first one. She sang "Meine lippen, sie küsse so heiss" from Lehar. It was a pitty that the space left for the singers on the stage was so narrow, not being able to dance all along of the stage as she uses to do. Nevertheless, she was dancing on the narrow space left to her. She was wearing light brown high heels and she almost slipped while dancing when she stepped her skirt with her highheels. Another funny incident happened. When was dancing she lost one of the hair ornaments she was wearing, flying towards the orchestra. Another huge amount of brava! brava! and standing ovations lasting for several minutes.
Massimo came to sing the "Core'ngrato" giving all the best of him. Wonderful. Joseph Calleja told me once, that when he was singing with Anna, she had the ability to get the best of him. I think that Massimo would agree on that. Bravos and a lot of applauses.
The superb evening came to an end with Anna and Massimo singing the "Brindisi" from "La Traviata" and the whole audience standing up, giving a huge amount of applauses to the performers.
Press Reports
In terms of praise, the timbre and the holding of the line of the Russian soprano. Her vocal color, dark, mottled, her sense of color is wonderful in Rusalka, with a Song to the Moon of rare beauty, poetic [...] Adrien De Vries, ClassiqueNews.com 2. Oct 2009 [French]
Photos Salle Pleyel, Paris 1. Oct 2009. Photo: Herbert
The Programme of the concert of Anna Netrebko and Massimo Giordano. Salle Pleyel, Paris 1. Oct 2009. Photo: Carlos
At the interior of the Salle Pleyel, meeting friends before starting the concert of Anna Netrebko and Massimo Giordano. Salle Pleyel, Paris 1. Oct 2009. Photo: Herbert
Massimo Giordano, Anna Netrebko and Keri-Lynn Wilson on stage during the second part of the concert. Salle Pleyel, Paris 1. Oct 2009. Photo: Arnaud
Massimo Giordano, Anna Netrebko and Keri-Lynn Wilson on stage during the second part of the concert. Salle Pleyel, Paris 1. Oct 2009. Photo: Arnaud
Keri-Lynn Wilson and Anna Netrebko on stage during the second part of the concert. Salle Pleyel, Paris 1. Oct 2009. Photo: Arnaud
Anna Netrebko and Keri-Lynn Wilson on stage during the second part of the concert. Salle Pleyel, Paris 1. Oct 2009. Photo: Arnaud
Massimo Giordano, Anna Netrebko and Keri-Lynn Wilson on stage during the second part of the concert. Salle Pleyel, Paris 1. Oct 2009. Photo: Arnaud
Massimo Giordano, Anna Netrebko and Keri-Lynn Wilson on stage during the second part of the concert. Salle Pleyel, Paris 1. Oct 2009. Photo: Arnaud
Massimo Giordano, Anna Netrebko and Keri-Lynn Wilson on stage during the second part of the concert. Salle Pleyel, Paris 1. Oct 2009. Photo: Arnaud
Massimo Giordano, Anna Netrebko and Keri-Lynn Wilson on stage during the second part of the concert. Salle Pleyel, Paris 1. Oct 2009. Photo: Arnaud
Massimo Giordano, Anna Netrebko and Keri-Lynn Wilson on stage during the second part of the concert. Salle Pleyel, Paris 1. Oct 2009. Photo: Arnaud
Keri-Lynn Wilson, Massimo Giordano and Anna Netrebko on stage during the second part of the concert. Salle Pleyel, Paris 1. Oct 2009. Photo: Arnaud
Massimo Giordano, Anna Netrebko and Keri-Lynn Wilson on stage during the second part of the concert. Salle Pleyel, Paris 1. Oct 2009. Photo: Herbert
Anna Netrebko on stage during the second part of the concert. Salle Pleyel, Paris 1. Oct 2009. Photo: Herbert
Anna Netrebko on stage during the second part of the concert. Salle Pleyel, Paris 1. Oct 2009. Photo: Herbert
Anna Netrebko on stage during the second part of the concert. Salle Pleyel, Paris 1. Oct 2009. Photo: Herbert
Anna Netrebko on stage during the second part of the concert. Salle Pleyel, Paris 1. Oct 2009. Photo: Herbert
Keri-Lynn Wilson, Massimo Giordano and Anna Netrebko on stage at the end of the concert. Salle Pleyel, Paris 1. Oct 2009. Photo: Arnaud
Keri-Lynn Wilson, Massimo Giordano and Anna Netrebko on stage at the end of the concert. Salle Pleyel, Paris 1. Oct 2009. Photo: Arnaud
Keri-Lynn Wilson, Massimo Giordano and Anna Netrebko on stage at the end of the concert. Salle Pleyel, Paris 1. Oct 2009. Photo: Arnaud
Keri-Lynn Wilson, Massimo Giordano and Anna Netrebko on stage at the end of the concert. Salle Pleyel, Paris 1. Oct 2009. Photo: Arnaud
Keri-Lynn Wilson, Massimo Giordano and Anna Netrebko on stage at the end of the concert. Salle Pleyel, Paris 1. Oct 2009. Photo: Arnaud
Keri-Lynn Wilson, Massimo Giordano and Anna Netrebko on stage at the end of the concert. Salle Pleyel, Paris 1. Oct 2009. Photo: Arnaud
Keri-Lynn Wilson, Massimo Giordano and Anna Netrebko on stage at the end of the concert. Salle Pleyel, Paris 1. Oct 2009. Photo: Arnaud
Keri-Lynn Wilson, Massimo Giordano and Anna Netrebko on stage at the end of the concert. Salle Pleyel, Paris 1. Oct 2009. Photo: Arnaud
Anna Netrebko and Massimo Giordano on stage at the end of the concert. Salle Pleyel, Paris 1. Oct 2009. Photo: Anne-Laure
Anna Netrebko and Massimo Giordano on stage at the end of the concert. Salle Pleyel, Paris 1. Oct 2009. Photo: Anne-Laure
Huge standing ovations for Anna Netrebko, Massimo Giordano and Keri-Lynn Wilson at the end of the concert. Salle Pleyel, Paris 1. Oct 2009. Photo: Herbert
Anna Netrebko at the stage door after the concert. Salle Pleyel, Paris 1. Oct 2009. Photo: Herbert
Anna Netrebko at the stage door after the concert. Salle Pleyel, Paris 1. Oct 2009. Photo: Herbert
Anna Netrebko at the stage door after the concert. Salle Pleyel, Paris 1. Oct 2009. Photo: Herbert
Anna Netrebko at the stage door after the concert. Salle Pleyel, Paris 1. Oct 2009. Photo: Herbert
Anna Netrebko at the stage door after the concert. Salle Pleyel, Paris 1. Oct 2009. Photo: Anne-Laure
Massimo Giordano at the stage door after the concert. Salle Pleyel, Paris 1. Oct 2009. Photo: Anne-Laure
Massimo Giordano at the stage door after the concert. Salle Pleyel, Paris 1. Oct 2009. Photo: Herbert
Anna Netrebko at the stage door after the concert. Salle Pleyel, Paris 1. Oct 2009. Photo: Herbert
Anna Netrebko and Massimo Giordano at the stage door after the concert. Salle Pleyel, Paris 1. Oct 2009. Photo: Anne-Laure
Massimo Giordano at the stage door after the concert. Salle Pleyel, Paris 1. Oct 2009. Photo: Herbert
Keri-Lynn Wilson at the stage door after the concert. Salle Pleyel, Paris 1. Oct 2009. Photo: Anne-Laure
Keri-Lynn Wilson at the stage door after the concert. Salle Pleyel, Paris 1. Oct 2009. Photo: Herbert
Videoclips
Anna Netrebko and Keri-Lynn Wilson getting the applauses from the public and coming back on stage to sing the first encore. Salle Pleyel, Paris 1. Oct 2009
Franz Lehar: "Meine Lippen, sie küssen so heiss" from "Giuditta", Anna Netrebko
Giuseppe Verdi: "Brindisi" from "La Traviata", Anna Netrebko and Massimo Giordano
