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Opera Arias (FC)

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Opera Arias (FC)

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"When you see Don Giovanni in Salzburg next week," Martin Engstroem, the then head of A&R at Deutsche Grammophon, told me in 2002, "watch out for the Donna Anna. A gifted young woman. We've signed a contract with her and will be making her first recording this autumn. I think she might make it to the top." I can still recall Engstroem's prophetic words at the 2002 Verbier Festival. He was referring to a young Russian soprano from Krasnodar, who, not quite thirty-one years old, was due to sing in the new production of Don Giovanni that opened the 2002 Salzburg Festival: Anna Netrebko. Her name was barely known in Europe, although she had spent the last nine years as a member of the Mariinsky Opera in St Petersburg, a company which, run by the mighty Valery Gergiev, was familiar in the West from its frequent international tours. She had studied at the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory opposite the theatre and performed various odd jobs for the company, including working as a cleaner, in order to get closer to the world of opera and learn the tricks of the trade at first hand. On winning the 1993 Moscow Glinka Competition, Anna Netrebko was offered a permanent engagement with the Mariinsky Opera. Shortly afterwards she made her German debut, appearing as Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro during a visit by the Mariinsky company to the 1994 Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival. She then hit the headlines in San Francisco in Glinka's Ruslan and Lyudmila. Elsewhere, too, her repertory was remarkably wide-ranging: in St Petersburg and on tour, she was heard as Rossini's Rosina, Mozart's Queen of Night and Pamina, Bizet's Micaëla, Donizetti's Adina, and Ninetta in Prokofiev's Love for Three Oranges and Louisa in the same composer's Betrothal in a Monastery. It was in St Petersburg in 1998 that she first essayed the role of Violetta Valéry. Shortly afterwards she made her Salzburg Festival debut as a Flowermaiden in concert performances of Parsifal under Gergiev.
Product details
Release Date:
2012-03-02
Publication Date:
2012-05-29
Publisher:
Universal Music Vertrieb - A Division of Universal Music GmbH /
Languages:
Published: French, Published: Italian, Published: Czech, Original: English
ISBN13:
0028947799689
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
103 g
Height:
123 cm
Width:
142 cm
Thickness:
10 cm
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