Over 300,000 visits!

From 16. December 2007 to 2. April 2010, StatCounter reports that the blog has had 481,940 page loads (number of times a page has been visited), 301,946 unique visitors (all the visitors) and 110,476 returning visitors (based purely on a cookie, if a person is returning to the blog for another visit an hour or more later). That gives day average values of 564 page loads, 354 visitors and 129 returning visitors over this period.

Over the last year, from 2. April 2009 to 2. April 2010, the day average values have been: 702 page loads, 445 visitors and 168 returning visitors.

The month average values from January 2008 to March 2010 are 17,751 page loads, 11,123 unique visitors and 4,075 returning visitors.

The graph below shows the evolution of the page loads, unique vsitors and returning visitors since 16. December 2007. The figure clearly shows a very high peak, a second remarkable peak and a period of extremely low activity in August 2009 when the blog was first closed and later on open by invitation only, with a restricted access.

The highest peak in terms of visits and page loads took place on 8. February 2009, reaching 3,981 page loads and 2,426 visits in a single day! From 4. February 2009 to 11. February 2009 the number of page loads was 15,089 and the number of visits 9,224, representing a day average of 1,886 page loads and 1,153 visits. On those dates Anna Netrebko was back at the Met in New York, for the first time after the birth of heer son Tiago, to sing the title role of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor. The performance on 7. February 2009 was transmitted live to selected movie theaters all around the world.

The figure below shows the evolution of the page loads, unique visitors and returning visitors from 4. February to 11. February 2009.

A second remarkable peak arised on 16. April 2009 with 2,056 page loads and 1,317 visits. On this occasion this peak was due to the return of Anna Netrebko to the Wiener Staatsoper in Wien, also to sing the title role of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor. The premiere, that I attended, was on 14. April 2009.

Thank you very much for your continuous support!

Great Hall of the St. Petersburg Academic Philharmonic Society, St. Petersburg 26. March 2010

Following her song recital at the Great Hall of the Moscow State Conservatory, Moscow on 23. March 2010, Anna Netrebko gave the same recital at the Great Hall of the St. Petersburg Academic Philharmonic Society, St. Petersburg on 26. Mar 2010.

Programme
Anna Netrebko, Soprano
Elena Bashkirova, Piano

Philharmonie, St. Petersburg
Friday 26. March 2010

1. PART
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakow • Worüber in der Stille der Nacht op. 40 Nr. 3 | O chem v tishi nochey op. 40 Nr. 3 | Of what I dream in the quiet night op. 40 Nr. 3
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakow • Verzeih! Erinnere dich nicht an die kummervollen Tage op. 27 Nr. 4 | Prosti! Ne pomni dney naden’ya op. 27 Nr. 4 | Forgive! Remember not these tearful days op. 27 Nr. 4
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakow • Es ist nicht der Wind, der von der Höhe weht op. 43 Nr. 2 | Ne veter, veya s vïsotï op. 43 Nr. 2 | Not the Wind, blowing from the hights op. 43 Nr. 2
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakow • Klingender ist das Lied der Lerche op. 43 Nr. 1 | Zvonche zhavoronka pen’ye op. 43 Nr. 1 | The lark sings louder op. 43 Nr. 1
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakow • Auf Grusiniens Hügeln op. 3 Nr. 4 | Na kholmakh Gruzii op. 3 Nr. 4 | On the hills of Georgia op. 3 Nr. 4
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakow • Im Reich der Rose und des Weins op. 8 Nr. 5 | V tsarstvo rozï i vina op. 8 Nr. 5 | In the kingdom of roses and wine op. 8 Nr. 5
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakow • Suleikas Lied op. 26 Nr. 4 | Pesnya Zyuleyki op. 26 Nr. 4 | Zuleika’s song op. 26 Nr. 4
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakow • Die Nachtigall wurde Sklavin der Rose op. 2 Nr. 2 | Plenivshis’ rozoy, solovey (Vostochnïy romans) op. 2 Nr. 2 | Enslaved by the rose, the nightingale op. 2 Nr. 2
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakow • Der Wolken Luftgebirg löst sich im Winde sacht op. 42 Nr. 3 | Redeyet oblakov letuchaya gryada op. 42 Nr. 3 | The clouds begin to scatter op. 42 Nr. 3
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakow • Die Nymphe op. 56 Nr. 1 | Nimfa op. 56 Nr. 1 | The nymph op. 56 Nr. 1
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakow • Ein Sommernachtstraum op. 56 Nr. 2 | Son v letnyuyu noch’ op. 56 Nr. 2 | Summer night’s dream op. 56 Nr. 2

2. PART
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky • Sag mir, wovon im dunklen Grün op. 57 Nr. 1 | Skazhi, o chom v teni vetvey op. 57 Nr. 1 | Tell me, what in the shade of the branches op. 57 Nr. 1
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky • So schnell vergessen (1870) | Zabït tak skoro (1870) | To forget so soon (1870)
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky • Trunkene Nächte op. 60 Nr. 6 | Nochy bezumnïye op. 60 Nr. 6 | Frenzied night op. 60 Nr. 6
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky • Warum? op. 6 Nr. 5 | Otchevo? op. 6 Nr. 5 | Why? op. 6 Nr. 5
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky • Serenade, O Kind, ich singe dir op. 63 Nr. 6 | Serenada op. 63 Nr. 6 | Serenade op. 63 Nr. 6
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky • Wiegenlied op. 16 Nr. 1 | Kolïbel’naya pesnya op. 16 Nr. 1 | Cradle song op. 16 Nr. 1
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky • War ich nicht ein Gräslein im Felde op. 47 Nr. 7 | Ya li v pole da ne travushka bïla op. 47 Nr. 7 | Was I not a little blade of grass? op. 47 Nr. 7
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky • In trüben Tagen op. 73 Nr. 5 | Sred mrachnïkh dnei op. 73 Nr. 5 | Mid sombre days op. 73 Nr. 5
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky • Herrschet der Tag op. 47 Nr. 6 | Den li tsarit? op. 47 Nr. 6 | Does the day reign op. 47 Nr. 6

ENCORES
Antonín Dvořák • Zigeunermelodien op. 55 Nr. 4 (Als die alte Mutter mich noch lehrte singen) | Ciganske melodie op. 55 Nr. 4 (Kdyz mne stará matka zpívat, zpívat ucívala) | Gypsy Songs op. 55 Nr. 4 (When my old mother taught me to sing)
Richard Strauss • Cäcilie op. 27 Nr. 2

Videoclips

The Wall Street Journal: A Diva's Domain

The Wall Street Journal publishes the article "A Diva's Domain", written by Juliet Chung, about the new Anna Netrebko's apartment in New York, a three-bedroom 1,900-square-foot condo in a high rise three blocks from Lincoln Center with views to the Hudson River. A gallery of photos show us different rooms of the apartment painted with bold colours - intense blue in the entrance hall, lime green in Tiago's playroom and lavender in the bedroom and kitchen.