Anna is Back!

After taking a 6-month break from opera to give birth to Tiago Aruä, her first son with bass-baritone Erwin Schrott, Anna Netrebko returns for her Met debut in the title role of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor on 26. January 2009.

The Met site has just published a recent interview with Anna, in which she talks about her return to the stage and her thoughts about Lucia.

"I didn't open my mouth at all. I just started practicing in November. I thought my voice would be wobbling. But no, no–it was there. I immediately sang the whole role of Lucia! I was curious how my voice would be, because I know of sopranos who have lost their voices after giving birth. But it seems like it was exactly the same as it was before. I started to sing like I had never stopped. The only thing that was different was that I got tired quickly. But that's normal. Like a sportsman, you need to train the muscles"

"The first time I heard Lucia I thought, Oh, my God, how can anybody sing that? No way. But later I tried it, and immediately, from the first phrase, it felt so good"

"You have to be able to act, you have to be able to move... That said, I was once at a performance of Lucia at the Vienna Staatsoper, with a wonderful soprano, Edita Gruberova. She doesn't really act–she's a singer. And I have to tell you, that was one of the most amazing Lucias I ever saw. She was just standing and singing, and it was incredible. She blew me away with her singing"

Read the Met Interview to Anna Netrebko

The Metropolitan Opera HD Live: Lucia di Lammermoor with Anna Netrebko and Rolando Villazón

Anna Netrebko 2008-2009 Season Schedule

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Anna Netrebko, Rosengarten, Mannheim 12. August 2009

Anna Netreko will give a recital at the Mozartsaal of the Rosengarten, Mannheim 12. August 2009.

ANNA NETREBKO – RECITAL
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Anna Netrebko 2008-2009 Season Schedule

Anna Netrebko and Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Derby Park, Hamburg 29. August 2009

Updated on 23. Dec 2008
This concert has been cancelled

Anna Netrebko and Dmitri Hvorostovsky with the Mariinsky Theater Orchestra conducted by Valery Gergiev will give a concert at the Derby Park, Hamburg on 29. August 2009. This one is the fourth of a concert tour series of Netrebko and Hvorostovsky starting at the Volkswagenhalle, Braunschweig on 16. May 2009 with the Staatskapelle Weimar conducted by Riccardo Frizza and followed by concerts at the Royal Festival Hall, London on 19. May 2009 with the Philharmonia Orchestra and Open-Air Königsplatz, München on 10. July 2009 with the Mariinsky Theater Orchestra conducted by Valery Gergiev.

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Michael Güttler will not conduct Lucia di Lammermoor at the Mariinsky Theater

Conductor Michael Güttler was scheduled to conduct a new production of Lucia di Lammermoor at the Mariinsky Theater, St. Petersburg on 14. and 17. January 2009 featuring Anna Netrebko in the title role. The performance on 14. January will be Anna's first performance after her baby pause. Some full rate tickets are still available.
Updated on 20. Dec 2008

Updated on 9. Jan 2009
Keri-Lynn Wilson conducts Lucia di Lammermoor at the Mariinsky Theater

The performances of Lucia di Lammermoor on 14. and 17. Jan 2009 have been now removed from the Michael Güttler's schedule on his website. Keri-Lynn Wilson will conduct those performances as it is currently announced on the playbill of the Mariinsky Theater website. Note that, there are 5-day to go for the premiere and the cast still has to be announced on the Mariinsky website. Nevertheless, a banner announcing the participation of Anna Netrebko has been included on the main page.

Anna Netrebko on WNYC Soundcheck, Dec 10, 2008

Anna Netrebko has been interviewed on WNYC Soundcheck on December 10, 2008.
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Anna Netrebko is replaced by Ailyn Pérez for the July 1st performance of La Traviata at San Francisco Opera

Now it's official, it has been announced by the San Francisco Opera on their web site and in a press release, that Anna Netrebko will not sing the July 1st performance of La Traviata and she will be replaced by Ailyn Pérez, a 2005 Merola Fellow.

In fact, this performance was removed from Anna's schedule on her web site more than 3 months ago, as it was announced on this blog. Then I asked the San Francisco Opera to confirm if she will perform on that date and I got an email saying that Anna would perform on July 1st. Unfortunately, for those who already had a ticket, Anna will not be singing on July 1st.

Press release [pdf]

DG releases I Capuleti e I Montecchi with Anna Netrebko, Elina Garanca and Joseph Calleja in Feb 2009

A live recording of Bellini's I Capuleti e I Montecchi with Anna Netrebko, Elina Garanca and Joseph Calleja and conducted by Fabio Luisi will be released by DG in February 2009. The recording was made during the performances held at the Konzerthaus in Wien on 22., 25. and 28. April 2008.

VINCENZO BELLINI
I Capuleti e i Montecchi (Gesamtaufnahme · Complete)
Anna Netrebko · Elina Garanca
Joseph Calleja · Robert Gleadow
Tiziano Bracci
Wiener Singakademie
Wiener Symphoniker
Fabio Luisi
CD DDD 477 8031 GH 2
2 Compact Discs
Release: Feb. 2009

Anna Netrebko on the cover of German magazine Opernwelt

Anna Netrebko is on the cover of the December issue of the German magazine Opernwelt. The magazine inludes also an interview with Anna Netrebko in which she looks back to her career in the last years and forward to a life as a young mother with many appointments and wishes. Among those wishes she wants to sing Elsa in Richard Wagner's Lohengrin.

Anna Netrebko on the cover of German magazine Das Opernglas

Anna Netrebko is on the cover of the December issue of the German magazine Das Opernglas. The magazine includes also an interview with Anna Netrebko in which she talks about her plans for the upcoming years.

Netrebko would like to give priority to family life, her son Tiago Arua and her fiance and father of her son Erwin Schrott, and during the early years their son probably will travel with them. Later on, when Tiago Aruä will start to go to the school, they will have to decide in which country they would like to live. Austria, where they live now is a fantastic option, but Spain also has a good chance.

In order to get more time for her son, Netrebko will reduce also the number of performances to sing, singing 5 or 6 performances of a production, rather than 8 or 9 like she was doing up to now.

The Metropolitan Opera HD Live: Lucia di Lammermoor with Anna Netrebko and Rolando Villazón

In January 2009, Anna Netrebko makes her highly-anticipated return to the stage, following a six-month maternity leave after having given birth to her first son Tiago Aruä on 5. September 2008, to sing the title role in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, first at the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg on 14. and 17. January 2009 and then at the Metropolitan Opera in New York on 26. and 29. January and 3. and 7. February 2009.

All four of her Met performances are sold out. The performance on 26. January 2009 will mark her role debut at the Met where she will be partnered on stage with tenor Rolando Villazón in their first joint appearance at the Met since April 2007, when the Met celebrated its 40th anniversary at Lincoln Center with a gala featuring the star singers.

The Lucia di Lammermoor performance on Saturday 7. February 2009 will be transmitted by The Met: Live in HD to movie theaters worldwide (1 PM ET/10 AM PT). An encore presentation will be given on Wednesday 18. February 2009 (7 PM local time). This one will be Netrebko's third consecutive Live in HD transmission from the Met, after those of Bellini's I Puritani on 6. January 2007 and Gounod's Roméo et Juliette on 15. December 2007.

Anna Netrebko in the Salzburger Festspiele 2009

Today it has been officially announced the Salzburger Festspiele 2009 Programme.

Anna Netrebko will perform in a piano recital accompanied by Daniel Barenboim at the Grosses Festspielhaus on 17. August 2009.

The programme includes songs by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Pyotr I. Tchaikovsky.

Anna Netrebko and Dmitri Hvorostovsky in München 10. July 2009

DEAG Classics AG has just announced an open-air concert of Anna Netrebko and Dmitri Hvorostovsky with the Mariinsky Theater Orchestra conducted by Valery Gergiev at the Königsplatz in München on 10. July 2009.

Tickets from 41,60 EUR to 318,10 EUR
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Tickets from 41,60 EUR to 318,10 EUR. VIP upgrade for 384 EUR
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Souvenirs Wallpaper

A second Souvenirs wallpaper has been added to the Anna Netrebko website and is available for download at different resolutions.