Anna Netrebko and Elina Garanca will attend the Wiener Opernball on 3. March 2011

The 55th Wiener Opernball, the most glamourous event of the year in Wien, will be on 3. March 2011. Among the invited guests who will attend the event, the star mezzo-soprano Elina Garanca, who will sing two arias, and the star soprano Anna Netrebko.

Deutsche Grammophon launches the microsite "Stabat Mater: A Tribute To Pergolesi"

Deutsche Grammophon, the yellow label for opera and classical music, has just launched the promotional microsite "Stabat Mater: A Tribute To Pergolesi" featuring the new recording starring Anna Netrebko, Marianna Pizzolato and the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia conducted by Antonio Pappano.

Photo: Deutsche Grammophon

Two versions of the new recording are presented: a standard edition and a prestige edition. While the standard edition includes a CD, the prestige edition (shown on the pic above), carefully designed and presented in a mini-book format as it was done in special editions of previous albums, includes a CD+DVD. The bonus DVD includes a "Behind the Scenes" filmed at the Baden-Baden recording session and at a London photo shoot, as well as the following music clips:

Stabat Mater - Duet: “Stabat Mater dolorosa” - Aria (soprano): “Cuius animam gementem” - Aria (soprano): “Vidit suum dulcem” - Aria (contralto): “Eia, Mater, fons amoris”
Nel chiuso centro - Recitativo: “Nel chiuso centro ove ogni luce assonna” - Aria: “Euridice, e dove sei?”
Sinfonia [Allegro assai e spiritoso] - Allegro

The microsite includes also a videoclip, a gallery of photos, the track list, information about the upcoming tour of Pergolesi's concerts and more.

TRACK LIST
The track list for the CD+DVD Prestige Edition is the following:

CD 1
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Nel chiuso centro
1. Nel chiuso centro 02:03
2. Euridice e dove 08:33
3. Si, che pietà non v'è 02:31
4. O d'Euridice n'andrò fastoso 03:29

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Li prodigi della divina grazia nella conversione e morte di san Guglielmo d'Aquitania
Sinfonia
5. Allegro assai e spiritoso 01:26
6. Andante 01:36
7. Allegro 01:56

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Questo è il piano, questo è il rio (Cantata for alto and strings)
8. Questo è il piano 06:51
9. Oh, dolce tempo 00:50
10. Torna, torna a Cocito 01:43
11. Se nel dir son menzognero 03:36

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Stabat Mater
Recording by Rene Clemencic
12. Stabat mater dolorosa 04:32
13. Cuius animam gementem 02:03
14. O quam tristis et afflicta 02:11
15. Quae moerebat et dolebat 02:08
16. Quis est homo, qui non fleret 02:43
17. Vidit suum dulcem natum 04:08
18. Eia mater, fons amoris 01:46
19. Fac ut ardeat cor meum 02:07
20. Sancta mater, istud agas 05:41
21. Fac ut portem christi mortem 03:34
22. Inflammatus et accensus 01:47
23. Quando corpus morietur 04:34
Total time: [71:48]

DVD Video 2
1. Stabat Mater - A Tribute to Pergolesi 33:55

Stabat Mater
Recording by Rene Clemencic
2. Stabat mater dolorosa 02:10
3. Cujus animam 00:56
4. Vidit suum 03:04
5. Eja mater 01:37
Total time: [41:42]

COVER ART
Different cover art has been selected for different editions,

Front cover of the prestige and standard editions in Germany

Back cover of the prestige edition in Germany

Front cover of the international prestige edition

Front cover of the international standard edition and prestige edition in Japan

Front cover of the standard edition in France 

VIDEOCLIPS
Promotional videoclip by Deutsche Grammophon


Stabat Mater (Music clips) by Deutsche Grammophon


The upcoming concert tour performances devoted to Pergolesi's "Stabat Mater" and other works featuring Anna Netrebko, Kate Lindsey and the English Chamber Orchestra conducted by Paul Watkins are scheduled as follows:

Stabat Mater and other works by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Philharmonie, Berlin 21. Apr 2011 – Anna Netrebko (Soprano), Kate Lindsey (Mezzo-soprano); English Chamber Orchestra, Paul Watkins 

Stabat Mater and other works by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Philharmonie am Gasteig, München 23. Apr 2011 – Anna Netrebko (Soprano), Kate Lindsey (Mezzo-soprano); English Chamber Orchestra, Paul Watkins 

Stabat Mater and other works by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Salle Pleyel, Paris 26. Apr 2011 – Anna Netrebko (Soprano), Kate Lindsey (Mezzo-soprano); English Chamber Orchestra, Paul Watkins 

Stabat Mater and other works by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, The Victoria Hall, Genève 28. April 2011 – Anna Netrebko (Soprano), Kate Lindsey (Mezzo-soprano); English Chamber Orchestra, Paul Watkins 

Stabat Mater and other works by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Halle aux Grains, Toulouse 2. May 2011 – Anna Netrebko (Soprano), Kate Lindsey (Mezzo-soprano); English Chamber Orchestra, Paul Watkins

Anna Netrebko will not be in Puccini's "La Bohème" at the 2011-2012 Liceo's Season

Right now there is a press conference at the Liceo of Barcelona presenting the 2011-2012 Season. The first news we have are really bad and the Liceo is on the way to become a second rank european opera house. A 15% budget cut has been applied for the next season and no performances will take place in September.

We were looking forward to confirming if Anna Netrebko and Roberto Alagna would star in a new production of Puccini's "La Bohème" as it was announced by Carlo Colombara a few days ago. Unfortunately now we may confirm that it's not true and Anna Netrebko and Roberto Alagna will not perform in that new production of "La Bohème".

2011-2012 Liceo's Season