HAPPY BIRTHDAY, TIAGO !!!

We wish a very Happy, Happy Birthday to Tiago in his third anniversary !!!

Have a wonderful day !!!

First joint interview to Anna Netrebko and Erwin Schrott in Austrian magazine NEWS

Austrian magazine NEWS publishes today what is the first joint interview to Anna Netrebko and Erwin Schrott. The interview took place in Salzburg where Netrebko currently sings the role of Juliette in Gounod's "Roméo et Juliette" and Schrott sings the role of Leporello in Mozart's "Don Giovanni".

In the joint interview they talk about love, family and opera.

"If we are not together, we don't feel well" says Netrebko. They try to spent as much time as possible together. Sometimes Schrott takes a jet to meet them, Anna and their son Tiago, even if it is just for a short while. They are planning to give a concert together in Russia. In September, Anna and Tiago will go to Barcelona to meet Erwin who will be there singing the role of Escamillo in Bizet's "Carmen".

Both the russian-austrian opera diva and the uruguayan baritone confess to be very jealous. "She has bitten me, she always does" says Schrott showing a mark on his hand.

Anna Netrebko says that, next year, at the Salzburger Festspiele 2011, she will sing Rossini's "Stabat Mater". It had been announced that she would sing the role of Mimi in Puccini's "La Bohème" at the Salzburger Festspiele 2012. Talking about new opera roles, Anna says that Erwin could sing the role of Scarpia in Puccini's "Tosca" at any time, but she don't know if Tosca would be good for her voice. Erwin said: "Yes, it would be".

Schrott claims to be Netrebko's biggest fan.

ORF, Austrian television, presents worldwide exclusively the film "Anna Netrebko - West-Eastern Diva" on 9. Aug 2010

ORF, Austrian television, presents worldwide exclusively the film "Anna Netrebko - West-Eastern Diva" on 9. Aug 2010 at 10:30 PM (CET), one-day before of the Salzburg premiere of Gounod's "Roméo et Juliette" starring Anna Netrebko and Piotr Beczala, making his role debut as Roméo, in the title roles.

The film of Russian director Anna Mitrokhina presents an insight in the private life of Anna Netrebko, showing private scenes as you have never seen before, away from the glamour and stardom, such as scenes of Anna Netrebko in love with her husband, the Uruguayan baritone Erwin Schrott, in Salzburg, Anna Netrebko singing folk songs in the garden of the house of her parents in Krasnodar, Anna Netrebko cooking with her sister Natasha in her new home in Wien or Anna Netrebko together with her cute son Tiago.

"For me it was a great opportunity to make this film about her. Anna also agreed and so we worked ten months together in this great project." said the Russian director Anna Mitrokhina.

In this new production, Anna Netrebko not only talks about her private life, but also about her relationship with the public.

Copyright notice: Photos shown above have been kindly provided by ORF and are only free to promote the above mentioned film. Any further use is strictly prohibited.

This is a short preview of the film:


The film "Anna Netrebko - West-Eastern Diva":

Happy Birthday Tiago!

Today, 5. September 2009, is the first birthday of Tiago Arua!

Happy Birthday, Tiago!!!

An Overview to Anna Netrebko's 2008-2009 Season

On a personal side, we could say that this Anna Netrebko's season started with the birth of her son Tiago Arua in Wien on 5. Sep 2008 and will end with her upcoming wedding with Erwin Schrott, father of Tiago Arua. The place and date of the wedding has not been announced, but it could take place at the end of August in Austria.

On the professional side, the 2008-2009 Season for Anna Netrebko started in January 2009, later than usual due to the birth of Tiago. Anna Netrebko has performed in 5 different operas: Donizetti's Lucia di Lammemoor at the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg, the Met in New York (role debut at the Met) and the Wiener Staatsoper in Wien (role debut at the Wiener Staatsoper), Bellini's I Capuleti e I Montecchi at the ROH in London (role debut at the ROH), Verdi's La Traviata at the Opernhaus Zürich in Zürich (debut at the Opernhaus Zürich), the Wiener Staatsoper in Wien and the San Francisco Opera in San Francisco (role debut at the San Francisco Opera), Puccini's La Bohème at the Bayerische Staatsoper in München (role debut at the Bayerische Staatsoper) and Tchaikovsky's Iolanta at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden in Baden-Baden (role debut).

Furthermore the Austrian-Russian star soprano sang in 4 concerts and 2 lied recitals: the Gala Concert "Friends of Valery Gergiev, The Stars of the Stars" held at the Mariinsky Theater on the occasion of Valery Gergiev's 56th Birthday, the "Anna Netrebko Gala" at the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theater, concerts with Dmitri Hvorostovsky in Braunschweig and München and lied recitals in Mannheim and at the Salzburger Festspiele in Salzburg.

From a personal point of view I have attended 4 opera performances, being able to see Anna in Lucia di Lammermoor in Wien, I Capuleti e I Montecchi in London, La Bohème in München and Iolanta in Baden-Baden. Attending each one of those performances has been a fantastic and unique experience. It was in Wien, after the Lucia's performance, where I was formally first introduced to Anna by Jeffrey Vanderveen.


Now the season has arrived to an end and we are looking forward to attending some of the exciting performances and concerts of the new season.

Meanwhile, we would like to send our best wishes of happiness to Anna, Erwin and Tiago.

Anna Netrebko | 2008-2009 Season
Anna Netrebko | 2009-2010 Season

Anna Netrebko and Erwin Schrott will marry very soon

The wedding of opera star Anna Netrebko and her partner and father of her son Tiago, the Uruguayan bass-baritone Erwin Schrott, seems imminent.

In an interview published in the Thursday issue of "Seitenblicke Magazin" Schrott said: "It will happen soon - very soon, we know the place, and we know the date."

Schrott provided some more details: "It does not matter whether the celebration is large or small. In any case it will be nothing pompous. But we want to have our our families - and they have to travel from southern Russia and South America. Therefore it was not easy to find a date convenient for everybody. But surprisingly, we did it."

Netrebko said: "We are a very happy couple. And of course we will marry. But it is difficult to draw up all necessary documents. It takes more than a week."

The wedding could take place at the second half of August, after Netrebko's lied recital in Salzburg on 17. Aug and before her concert at the Red Square in Moscow on 4. Sep 2009. Those dates would be also convenient for Schrott, who is singing the title role of Mozart's Don Giovanni at the Theater an der Wien until 14. Aug, being his next performance in Mos in Egitto at the Opernhaus Zürich on 19. Sep 2009.

Press
"Wir heiraten bald - sehr bald!" - Seitenblicke.at 5. Aug 2009 [German]
Anna Netrebko und Erwin Schrott wollen heiraten - DerStandard.at 5. Aug 2009 [German]
Anna Netrebko und Erwin Schrott planen Hochzeit - DiePresse.com 5. Aug 2009 [German]
Netrebko und Schrott heiraten bald - Bild.de 5. Aug 2009 [German]
Anna Netrebko und Erwin Schrott - Baldige Hochzeit - FAZ.net 5. Aug 2009 [German]
Anna Netrebko y Erwin Schrott planean casarse en breve, según semanario - ADN.es 5. Aug 2009 [Spanish]
Анна Нетребко выходит замуж - Rosbalt.ru 6. Aug 2009 [Russian]

Anna Netrebko, Erwin Schrott and Tiago at the Chopard shop in Zürich on Schweizer Illustrierte

Anna Netrebko with her fiance, the bass-baritone Erwin Schrott, and their son Tiago, were at the Chopard shop in Zürich last friday, two days after the debut of the opera diva at the Opernhaus Zürich as Violetta Valéry in Verdi's La Traviata, where she was wearing a CHF 4.0 Million Chopard necklace with emeralds (60 carats) and 172 diamonds and matching earrings.

The Swiss site Schweizer-Illustrierte.com has published the article Diva der Herzen written by Caroline Micaela Hauger and an exclusive photo galery covering the visit of Anna, Erwin and Tiago to the Chopard shop at Bahnhofstrasse, Zürich on 24. April 2009. At the Chopard shop, they were welcome by Caroline Gruosi-Scheufele, Artistic Director and Co-chairman of Chopard worldwide.

Related posts
Article - Die Primamamma, Blick.ch 26. Apr 2009
Anna Netrebko, Erwin Schrott and Tiago at the Chopard shop in Zürich on the SF 1 TV channel

Anna Netrebko, Erwin Schrott and Tiago at the Chopard shop in Zürich on the SF 1 TV channel

Anna Netrebko with her husband, the bass-baritone Erwin Schrott, and their son Tiago, were at the Chopard shop in Zürich last friday, two days after the debut of the opera diva at the Opernhaus Zürich as Violetta Valéry in Verdi's La Traviata. National swiss TV channel SF 1 was covering the visit and interviewed Anna at the Chopard shop.







Related posts
Article - Die Primamamma, Blick.ch 26. Apr 2009

Article - Die Primamamma, Blick.ch 26. Apr 2009

The swiss online magazine Blick.ch has published today an article about Anna Netrebko written by Claudia Schlup. The article, Die Primamamma, shows the opera diva in her most important and beautiful role as woman, wife of the uruguayan bass-baritone Erwin Schrott and mother of their baby Tiago. All three of them were walking on Bahnhofstrasse in Zürich last friday, two days after her stunning debut at the Opernhaus Zürich as Violetta Valéry in Verdi's La Traviata. On their walk, they visited the shop of Chopard. Anna, which has a contract with Chopard, was wearing a CHF 4.0 Million Chopard necklace, with emeralds (6o carats) and 172 diamonds, and matching earrings, during the second scene of the second act of La Traviata's premiere on 22. April 2009. Erwin and Tiago left her for a while, just to come back with a wonderful bouquet of purple roses for Anna.

Anna Netrebko is in Valencia, Spain

Anna Netrebko, Erwin Schrott and their son Tiago Arua are in Valencia, Spain, where they are living in a villa on the beach.

Yesterday, Anna Netrebko attended one of the performances of Gounod's Faust at the Palacio de las Artes, the spectacular new opera house of Valencia, where Erwin Schrott sings Mephistopheles.

Anna Netrebko on The Huffington Post, 30. Jan 2009

Patricia Zohn plots an intimate and personal profile of Anna Netrebko and her baby Tiago at their New York home appartment, very close to Lincoln Center, in the article Anna Netrebko: Opera Babe and Her Babe. Photo courtesy of Sean M. Gross.

Anna Netrebko on the New York Post, 29. Jan 2009

The New York Post has published an article written by Barbara Hoffman about Anna Netrebko, after she has been visiting the Russian diva at her Manhattan apartment near Lincoln Center.

Anna talks about her last performances in Paris in Bellini's I Capuleti e I Montecchi, how her life changed after giving birth to her son Tiago on 5. September 2008 and her return to the Met stage to sing, for first time on this stage, the title role of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, stepping in the same role two great sopranos - Natalie Dessay and Diana Damrau - had just done before.

Anna comments also about how difficult was to getting back into shape after giving birth to her son Tiago, especially with a freezer full of ice cream. "It's forbidden," she laughs. "I'm also drinking a leetle, but not as much as I used to!". Lucky she lives with her personal trainer. "My husband is working me out two or three hours almost every day, and he's really kicking me!" she says. "I have just the belly - the rest of it is OK." She raises her Escada skirt to reveal a glamorous set of gams. "See?" she says. "The legs are still the same!"
"Solo goes trio" by Barbara Hoffman - New York Post, 29. January 2009

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.