tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656305273324419856.post7884450477680689674..comments2023-07-15T12:30:12.424+02:00Comments on Anna Netrebko: La Bohème, Bayerische Staatsoper, München 28. Mai 2009Carloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13519033651140851117noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656305273324419856.post-85661108897965412502009-06-01T22:52:36.937+02:002009-06-01T22:52:36.937+02:00vous ne trouvez pas que anna retrouve sa ligne d'a...vous ne trouvez pas que anna retrouve sa ligne d'avant la naisance de son garçon,moi, je la trouve terriblement belle ,merveilleuse anna, domage, je n'aurais jamais le plaisir de la voir et l'entendre en reel,enfin, tand qu'il y a vie il y a espoire:=)))Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656305273324419856.post-75373019481030207072009-05-30T12:27:40.614+02:002009-05-30T12:27:40.614+02:00Attila - what a great review! Couldn't agree with ...Attila - what a great review! Couldn't agree with you more on so many points, especially those people whose first experience of Anna was during the Lucia's at the start of the year and also about Calleja's singing.Cardiff Traviatahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05177574569221322052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656305273324419856.post-61176664383357066982009-05-29T17:20:22.319+02:002009-05-29T17:20:22.319+02:00Thank you Herbert for this foto... Anna is Fantast...Thank you Herbert for this foto... Anna is Fantastic in that pictures... !!!SempreLiberahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11629122025359751911noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656305273324419856.post-67320071589763351312009-05-29T16:02:38.868+02:002009-05-29T16:02:38.868+02:00Attila, of course, I have posted your fantastic re...Attila, of course, I have posted your fantastic review on the main page. Thanks a lot!Carloshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13519033651140851117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656305273324419856.post-24896275589898804262009-05-29T14:15:04.501+02:002009-05-29T14:15:04.501+02:00This was an amazing performance. These are great d...This was an amazing performance. These are great days when we finally have a singer whose Mimi can bring to mind great sopranos such as Tebaldi and Caballe. I say to people see Anna now, don't leave it until tomorrow.<br /><br />This Munich Boheme was a totally different experience from Anna's Traviata in Vienna. Instead of an intelligently thought out performance full of ideas and deliberate use of different vocal colours and styles, we had here in La Boheme an intuitive artist simply living the character without any apparent 'art'. From her first aria the voice was perfectly placed, the phrasing ecstatic. She left no room for thoughts of how she could do it better.<br /><br />This Mimi was a total innocent rather that a calculating flirt, ill from the very beginning rather than a wilting flower in slow decline. She was lucky (or unlucky) enought to fall into the spider's web of Calleja's Rodolfo who showed himself to be a congenial sexual predator doing all he could to enmesh his new neighbour. <br /><br />The most miraculous singing from Anna was in the third act, the voice soaring with no effort, plenty of subtle phrasing and beauty of tone. Plenty of genuine emotion, never overblown of histrionic. It's hard to believe that the Met Lucias were only a few months ago - I feel sorry for anyone whose vocal image of Anna was formed by her singing at that time.<br /><br />I thought at some points in the evening that Calleja would not find the incredible range of emotion which he had shown in his Alfredo in the Vienna Traviata, but I think he was deliberately saving it for the end of the opera. The moment when he understands Mimi has died was devasting, suddenly he was overcome by a violent grief that went from a total refusal to accept her death to the sudden realisation of the extent of his loss - all in a matter of seconds. The voice is amazing; it's strange these days to listen to a tenor who does not force. I must admit that I wasn't impressed when I had listened to recordings even of his live performances. But when you see him live you are completely transported by his lack of tension, both vocally and in his stage presence. He makes the audience feel relaxed. But at the same time he has a warm and deeply sensual side which he uses very subtley to make scenes progress emotionally. I am beginning to think - having only seen him sing with Anna twice - that it's this relaxed warm emotional quality which is bringing out the best singing we have ever heard from Anna. <br /><br />At the curtain calls Calleja was still in tears from Mimi's death, but he cheered up when he appeared to sign autographs at the stage door. Anna finally appeared in her blue dress, and literally looked like she was still in a trance. After her Vienna performance she had been tired but charming. This time she appeared to have come from another world; she looked at people quizzically like a new born fawn assessing a totally unfamiliar world. I walked up and told her that tonight she had been even better than in Vienna - she momentarily woke from her trance, her eyes lit up and she seemed to connect with me, "Really? You think so?" I told her I thought Tebaldi and Caballe could not have sung Mimi better. She smiled broadly, almost embarassed and seemed reassured. I think she agreed it had been a fantastic performance.<br /><br />The rest of the cast were a bit weak. Anna and Calleja were like giants in a land of small people - with the notable exception of John Relyea who was a youthful, charismatic and very well sung Colline. The weakness of the other cast members meant the group ensembles didn't work for me, and the production of Act 2 was disappointing with Musetta going off with street boys instead of focusing her alternate passion on her old rich admirer. After Vienna, the Munich orchestra is a disappointment and the acoustic here is very dry - like most of the audience. I have never seen such a well dressed miserable bunch of people!Attilalondon@msn.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656305273324419856.post-31808194155444439462009-05-29T11:27:42.692+02:002009-05-29T11:27:42.692+02:00Thanks Herbert for your report and photos!Thanks Herbert for your report and photos!Cardiff Traviatahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05177574569221322052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656305273324419856.post-54017363323250265532009-05-29T10:10:10.989+02:002009-05-29T10:10:10.989+02:00Una excelente crónica. Gracias.
Anna está guapísi...Una excelente crónica. Gracias.<br /><br />Anna está guapísima.Atticushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16583297604176367175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656305273324419856.post-71315149086894698252009-05-29T01:53:25.928+02:002009-05-29T01:53:25.928+02:00Loved Netrebko! She must be even more beautiful in...Loved Netrebko! She must be even more beautiful in person...Dalva M. Ferreirahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15300011484292958416noreply@blogger.com