BREAKING NEWS: Anna Netrebko cancels all the sold-out performances of Don Giovanni at the Berliner Staatsoper

Anna Netrebko cancels all the sold-out performances of Mozart's Don Giovanni at the Berliner Staatsoper im Schiller Theater. The role of Donna Anna will be sung by Maria Bengtsson. Erwin Schrott will sing the role of Leporello.

The missing Leporello at the Staatsoper im Schiller Theater, Berlin, has been unveiled

Next season, the Staatsoper im Schiller Theater will premiere Mozart's "Don Giovanni" starring Anna Netrebko. The full cast, except for the role of Leporello, was announced a couple of weeks ago when the new season was unveiled. Now the missing cast information has been also unveiled, being Erwin Schrott who will sing the role of Leporello.

Don Giovanni, Staatsoper im Schiller Theater, Berlin 24. Jun 2012 – Christopher Maltman (Don Giovanni), Anna Netrebkoª (Donna Anna), Giuseppe Filianoti (Don Ottavio), Dorothea Röschmann (Donna Elvira), Erwin Schrott (Leporello), Anna Prohaska (Zerlina), Stefan Kocan (Masetto), Alexander Tsymbalyuk (Il Commendatore); Robert Carsen (Inszenierung), Staatsopernchor und Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim 

Don Giovanni, Staatsoper im Schiller Theater, Berlin 27. Jun 2012 – Christopher Maltman (Don Giovanni), Anna Netrebko (Donna Anna), Giuseppe Filianoti (Don Ottavio), Dorothea Röschmann (Donna Elvira), Erwin Schrott (Leporello), Anna Prohaska (Zerlina), Stefan Kocan (Masetto), Alexander Tsymbalyuk (Il Commendatore); Robert Carsen (Inszenierung), Staatsopernchor und Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim 

Don Giovanni, Staatsoper im Schiller Theater, Berlin 30. Jun 2012 – Christopher Maltman (Don Giovanni), Anna Netrebko (Donna Anna), Giuseppe Filianoti (Don Ottavio), Dorothea Röschmann (Donna Elvira), Erwin Schrott (Leporello), Anna Prohaska (Zerlina), Stefan Kocan (Masetto), Alexander Tsymbalyuk (Il Commendatore); Robert Carsen (Inszenierung), Staatsopernchor und Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim 

Don Giovanni, Staatsoper im Schiller Theater, Berlin 3. Jul 2012 – Christopher Maltman (Don Giovanni), Anna Netrebko (Donna Anna), Giuseppe Filianoti (Don Ottavio), Dorothea Röschmann (Donna Elvira), Erwin Schrott (Leporello), Anna Prohaska (Zerlina), Stefan Kocan (Masetto), Alexander Tsymbalyuk (Il Commendatore); Robert Carsen (Inszenierung), Staatsopernchor und Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim 

Don Giovanni, Staatsoper im Schiller Theater, Berlin 6. Jul 2012 – Christopher Maltman (Don Giovanni), Anna Netrebko (Donna Anna), Giuseppe Filianoti (Don Ottavio), Dorothea Röschmann (Donna Elvira), Erwin Schrott (Leporello), Anna Prohaska (Zerlina), Stefan Kocan (Masetto), Alexander Tsymbalyuk (Il Commendatore); Robert Carsen (Inszenierung), Staatsopernchor und Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim

Check out the full Anna Netrebko | 2011-2012 Season.

Anna Netrebko at the Staatsoper im Schiller Theater's 2011-2012 season

Today the Staatsoper Unter Den Linden of Berlin, currently at the Schiller Theater, has unveiled the new 2011-2012 season.

Anna Netrebko will take part in two main events.

Anna Netrebko will perform in a Benefit Concert supporting the reforms of the Staatsoper Unter der Linden. The concert is scheduled on 29 Feb 2012 at the Philharmonie Berlin and Daniel Barenboim will conduct the Staatskapelle Berlin.

Benefizkonzert, Philharmonie Berlin, Berlin 29. Feb 2012 – Anna Netrebko (Soprano); Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim

In June 2012, Anna Netrebko will return to Berlin to sing the role of Donna Anna in a series of five performances of Robert Carsen's production of Mozart's "Don Giovanni". The performances features Christopher Maltman in the title role, Giuseppe Filianoti as Don Ottavio, Dorothea Röschmann as Donna Elvira, Anna Prohaska as Zerlina, Stefan Kocan as Masetto and Alexander Tsymbalyuk as Il Commendatore. The name for Leporello has not been provided yet. Daniel Barenboim conducts the Staatsopernchor and Staatskapelle Berlin. This is the same production that will open the Teatro alla Scala's 2011-2012 season on 7. Dec 2011 starring also Anna Netrebko as Donna Anna.

Don Giovanni, Staatsoper im Schiller Theater, Berlin 24. Jun 2012 – Christopher Maltman (Don Giovanni), Anna Netrebkoª (Donna Anna), Giuseppe Filianoti (Don Ottavio), Dorothea Röschmann (Donna Elvira), Erwin Schrott (Leporello), Anna Prohaska (Zerlina), Stefan Kocan (Masetto), Alexander Tsymbalyuk (Il Commendatore); Robert Carsen (Inszenierung), Staatsopernchor und Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim 

Don Giovanni, Staatsoper im Schiller Theater, Berlin 27. Jun 2012 – Christopher Maltman (Don Giovanni), Anna Netrebko (Donna Anna), Giuseppe Filianoti (Don Ottavio), Dorothea Röschmann (Donna Elvira), Erwin Schrott (Leporello), Anna Prohaska (Zerlina), Stefan Kocan (Masetto), Alexander Tsymbalyuk (Il Commendatore); Robert Carsen (Inszenierung), Staatsopernchor und Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim 

Don Giovanni, Staatsoper im Schiller Theater, Berlin 30. Jun 2012 – Christopher Maltman (Don Giovanni), Anna Netrebko (Donna Anna), Giuseppe Filianoti (Don Ottavio), Dorothea Röschmann (Donna Elvira), Erwin Schrott (Leporello), Anna Prohaska (Zerlina), Stefan Kocan (Masetto), Alexander Tsymbalyuk (Il Commendatore); Robert Carsen (Inszenierung), Staatsopernchor und Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim 

Don Giovanni, Staatsoper im Schiller Theater, Berlin 3. Jul 2012 – Christopher Maltman (Don Giovanni), Anna Netrebko (Donna Anna), Giuseppe Filianoti (Don Ottavio), Dorothea Röschmann (Donna Elvira), Erwin Schrott (Leporello), Anna Prohaska (Zerlina), Stefan Kocan (Masetto), Alexander Tsymbalyuk (Il Commendatore); Robert Carsen (Inszenierung), Staatsopernchor und Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim 

Don Giovanni, Staatsoper im Schiller Theater, Berlin 6. Jul 2012 – Christopher Maltman (Don Giovanni), Anna Netrebko (Donna Anna), Giuseppe Filianoti (Don Ottavio), Dorothea Röschmann (Donna Elvira), Erwin Schrott (Leporello), Anna Prohaska (Zerlina), Stefan Kocan (Masetto), Alexander Tsymbalyuk (Il Commendatore); Robert Carsen (Inszenierung), Staatsopernchor und Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim

Check out the full Anna Netrebko | 2011-2012 Season.

Update 7. May 2011: Erwin Schrott will sing the role of Leporello

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.

Anna Netrebko at the Festtage 2010, Philharmonie, Berlin

Anna Netrebko sings in a piano recital accompanied by Daniel Barenboim at the Festtage 2010 at the Philharmonie, Berlin, on Monday 29. March 2010. The programm contains works by Rimsky-Korsakov and Tchaikovsky. Tickets range from 45 EUR to 260 EUR.

Festtage 2010 Programm
Anna Netrebko 2009-2010 Season Schedule