Anna Netrebko's interview on In Tune on 28. Sep 2011

This is an audio-excerpt of Anna Netrebko's interview with Sean Rafferty of BBC Radio 3 on In Tume on 28. Sep 2011.

Netrebko talks about Donizetti's "Anna Bolena" and her upcoming challenges in more dramatic roles, such as Eleonora in Verdi's "Il Trovatore", Tatiana in Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin" and the title role in Puccini's "Manon Lescaut".

Anna Netrebko could make her debut at the Bayreuther Festspiele 2013 as Elsa in "Lohengrin"

The Austrian magazine NEWS will publish tomorrow an interesting interview to Anna Netrebko.

The Russian-Austria soprano says that she could make her debut at the Bayreuther Festspiele 2013 singing the role of Elsa in Richard Wagner's masterpiece "Lohengrin". "This is my dream, I love this music. I have to work hard to enhance my german". Nevertheless, everything will depend on some issues like the schedule of the Bayreuther Festspiele and how would be the production and who would be the stage director. Anna is trying to avoid bad productions.

On the other hand, another dream for Anna Netrebko would be to collaborate with the German conductor Christian Thielemann, one of the best Wagner conductors.

Anna Netrebko is also planning to sing the role of Eleonora in Verdi's "Il Trovatore" conducted by Daniel Barenboim at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin in 2013. She has also plans to sing the role of Marguerite in Gounod's "Faust".

The new roles Anna Netrebko will sing the upcoming years

Anna Netrebko is facing new challenges and she will sing new and heaviest roles in the upcoming years as The Voice of Russia has published.

The first new role that will face Anna Netrebko is the title role in Donizetti's Anna Bolena. Netrebko will sing this role at Wiener Staatsoper of Wien in April 2011 and at the Metropolitan Opera of New York, opening the 2011-2012 season. It's also expected that she will return with this role to the Teatro Real of Madrid, where she sang the role of Natasha in Prokofiev's War and Peace in April/May 2001, the 2011-2012 season.

The second new role will be Tatiana in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin. Anna Netrebko will sing this role at the Metropolitan Opera of New York, the 2012-2013 season.

The third new role will be Leonora in Verdi's Il Trovatore. Anna Netrebko will sing this heeaviest role at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin, the 2013-2014 season. Daniel Barenboim will conduct the Staatskapelle Berlin. Netrebko could make her debut at the Gran Teatro del Liceo of Barcelona with this role.