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.

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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.