Anna Netrebko at the Opening Night of Don Carlo at the ROH

Anna Netrebko was at the opening night of Don Carlo at the ROH Covent Garden where Rolando Villazón was singing the title role. Anna was sitting at Row B of the Amphitheater.
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Anna Netrebko's baby likes Joyce DiDonato's singing

Joyce DiDonato, who sings Bellini's "I Capuleti e I Montecchi" in Paris with Anna Netrebko, who is on her seventh month of pregnancy, wrote on her blogsite YankeeDiva:

"I forgot to tell you before, don't look at my stomach when you are singing to me!" (It's no surprise that she happens to be a bit pregnant at present....) so I'm thinking, "Oh fabulous - I just played this whole death scene holding her hands and her stomach - great! - I'm making her self-conscience!" and I quickly apologized, to which she replied, "No, no - it's not that - it's that he likes your singing so much he's kicking like crazy, and I don't want you to see that and start laughing!" So the baby likes my singing? That's cool. Maybe they'll name him Romeo in my honor..."

Die Seele der Musik - Photographs Exhibition in Salzburg

DIE SEELE DER MUSIK / THE SOUL OF MUSIC
Photographs by Mat Hennek and Werner Neumeister

Exhibition dates:
Monday 28 July 2008 - Sunday 28 September 2008

Bernheimer
Galerie Schloss
FuschlSchloss Strasse 19
5322 Hof bei Salzburg
Tel.: +43 6229-2253-1530
Fax: +43 6229-2253-1529
http://www.mat-hennek.com/
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On the schedule of Anna Netrebko

Anna Netrebko sings Elettra and Rolando Villazón sings the title role of Idomeneo at the Opera Bastille in Paris in January 2010. She is also scheduled at the Opera Bastille in Paris as Adina in L'Elisir d'Amore, with Rolando Villazón as Nemorino, and as Marguerite in Faust, with Roberto Alagna in the title role.

Anna Netrebko sings Desdemona at the Teatro alla Scala di Milano conducted by Daniel Barenboim in 2011. The role of Otello has not yet been assigned!

Anna Netrebko sings Tatiana of Eugene Onegin at the MET of New York in 2012.

Planned DVDs releases with Anna Netrebko

DG would plan to release a DVD of the Iolanta performances to be held in July 2009 at Baden-Baden with Anna Netrebko and Rolando Villazón, conducted by Valery Gergiev.

DG would be planning to release a DVD of the I Capuleti e I Montecchi to be held in March and April 2009 at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden with Elina Garanca and Anna Netrebko in the leading roles and Mark Elder conducting.

Finally, it would be on the agenda to try to get together Anna Netrebko and Dmitri Hvorostovsky in the leading roles of War and Peace and Valery Gergiev conducting, allowing the release of a DVD of the performance. Unfortunately, until now this has not be possible because of agenda problems. I would not mind to have to wait for a while, just to have all three of them in such a recording!

I Capuleti e I Montecchi, Paris 24. May 2008

Stunning premiere performance of I Capuleti e I Montecchi at the Opera Bastille in Paris this Saturday 24. May 2008 with a cast leaded by Joyce DiDonato as Romeo and Anna Netrebko as Giulietta, and Matthew Polenzani as Tebaldo, Giovanni Battista Parodi as Capellio and Mikhail Petrenko as Lorenzo. The conductor was Evelino Pidó. It was a debut's night. For Anna Netrebko it was her debut at the Opera National de Paris and for Joyce DiDonato and Matthew Polenzani it was their role debut. Anna Netrebko made an outstanding performance, both vocally and dramatically. Anna's powerful high notes and breathtaking pianissimi were terrific. Joyce DiDonato made a superb role debut. It was hard to realize that it was just the first time she was singing this role.

The other members of the cast were also pretty good, in particular Matthew Polenzani as Tebaldo. Maestro Evelino Pidó was conducting very well. The production directed by Robert Carsen was a classic one. The red colours on the walls and clothes of the Capuleti were dominant, while Giulieta was in white and the Montecchi in black.

Standing ovation at the curtain call, filled with "Bravi!" mainly addressed to Anna Netrebko and Joyce DiDonato.

Jeffrey Vanderveen attended the performance. Joan Matabosch, artistic director of the Liceo of Barcelona, was also there. Both of them were siting on the same row, just a few rows in front of me, and they were exchanging some words. I asked Matabosch if we will be able to see Anna at the Liceo of Barcelona, but he was not able to confirm or just announce anything for the moment.

At the end of the performance some of us met Anna at the stage door. It was a dinner at the house, so we needed to wait for quite a while, but it was worthing. She came looking really great, very happy and relaxed, with a wide smile and a nice bouquet of flowers.

"And of course, Anna Netrebko was making her Paris Opéra debut in this role, and she was a dream to share the stage with - from her beautiful singing, to her completely involved performance, to the hidden squeeze of my hand as I sang my final aria to her. She is a most generous colleague who enters onto the stage to tell the story holding nothing back, and I do believe it is one of the reasons she is an anointed star in this opera world - I think the audience feels and responds to her generosity and knowing that she is enjoying every note she sings."
Joyce DiDonato

Des roses qui virevoltent, des flashs qui crépitent au milieu des "bravo", des rangs entiers debout -et pour une fois pas dans l'espoir de s'éclipser de la salle avant tout le monde-... La première d'Anna Netrebko à l'Opéra Bastille dans "I Capuleti e I Montecchi" de Vincenzo Bellini n'est pas passée inaperçue.
Netrebko-DiDonato : Un duo de charme à l'opéra Bastille, Caroline Mazodier, LaTribune.fr 30. May 2008

Updated on 30. May 2008 21:26

I Capuleti e I Montecchi, Opera Bastille, Paris 21. May 2008, Dress Rehearsal

Here there is a videoclip of Anna Netrebko as Giulietta and Joyce DiDonato as Romeo in the duet of the first act of Bellini's I Capuleti e I Montecchi at the dress rehearsal on 21. May 2008 at the Opera Bastille, Paris.


The next videoclip shows Anna Netrebko as Giulietta, together with Mikhail Petrenko as Lorenzo and Giovanni Battista Parodi as Capellio, in the aria of the second act of Bellini's I Capuleti e I Montecchi at the dress rehearsal on 21. May 2008 at the Opera Bastille, Paris.


Updated on 18. June 2008