Anna Netrebko: Live At The Met

Our generation's greatest performer on the Met Stage showcases her finest performances in one collection. Live At The Met features excerpts from live performances on the Met stage from La Boheme, Don Giovanni, War & Peace, I Puritani, Les Contes d'Hoffman, Rome et Juliette, Don Pasquale and Lucia di Lammermoor.

The forthcoming season marks the 10th anniversary of Anna Netrebko's debut with the Metropolitan Opera, New York. The new album celebrates this milestone by bringing together her greatest MET moments throughout the past 10 seasons - performances never before issued on record and most never commercially released on any format.

Anna Netrebko's first operatic album sold more than 300,000 units, the second, Sempre libera, more than 400,000, while her live recording of Verdi's La Traviata has sold in excess of 350,000 on CD alone. This new album, capturing the thrill of her greatest performances on one of the world's most iconic stages, will be a major event for hundreds of thousands of fans who have followed her career in the opera house, on radio, on CD, on DVD and in cinemas worldwide.

Over the past decade, The Met has played host to many of the Russian soprano's greatest triumphs, from Prokofiev's War and Peace in 2002 to her most recent appearance, in 2010, as Adina in Donizetti's Don Pasquale. The album also includes virtuoso arias from Mozart's Don Giovanni, Bellini's I Puritani, Verdi's Rigoletto, Gounod's Roméo et Juliette, Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor and Puccini's La Bohème.

The selections - including performances with tenors Roberto Alagna, Joseph Calleja and Juan Diego Flórez - demonstrate Anna Netrebko's remarkable vocal range and dramatic imagination. All recorded live, they are infused with her unique vocal magnetism and irresistible on-stage charisma.

"This compilation of highlights from Anna Netrebko's Metropolitan Opera roles makes a distinctive introduction to her talents...it's her solo aria from Roméo & Juliette that proves one of the stand-out performances here, the other being a dazzling showstopper from Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, "Il dolce suono", which has the audience justly bawling its acclaim." -The Independent

"They show Netrebko’s chameleon-like ability to alter her timbre according to repertoire: the ethereal, Sutherland-like soprano in Donizetti and Bellini is unrecognisable as the singer who delivers a hard-edged, glinting Natasha in Prokofiev’s War and Peace." -The Times

International Record Review
There is an alert sense of drama, which is where Netrebko really scores as a singing actress... While her bel canto is judged 'could do better', it's worth considering that, at 40, Netrebko is now just entering her prime.

The Guardian
The real treat is her Natasha in Prokofiev's War and Peace, conducted by Gergiev, with Dmitri Hvorostovsky as a dreamy Andrei. It's nicely recorded, too: some of Netrebko's discs capture the power of her voice at the expense of its opulence; here, you get a real sense of its force and beauty.

Notes & Reviews:

Recording information: Metropolitan Opera, NY (2002-2010).

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Bellini, Vincenzo : I Puritani, opera :: Part 2. Aria. Qui la voce sua soave

Performer: Anna Netrebko (Soprano)
Conductor: Patrick Summers
Running Time: 3 min. 59 sec.
Period Time: Romantic
Written: 1835

Prokofiev, Sergei : Voyna i mir (War and Peace) :: Act 1. Scena and Duet. Ya ne budu - Kak solnca za goroy

Performers: Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Baritone); Anna Netrebko (Soprano); Ekaterina Semenchuk
Conductor: Valery Gergiev
Notes: Composition written: 1941-43.
Running Time: 5 min. 38 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Form: Opera/Operetta
Written: 1941-1943

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus : Don Giovanni :: Act 2. Aria. Vedrai, carino

Performer: Anna Netrebko (Soprano)
Conductor: Sylvain Cambreling
Running Time: 3 min. 57 sec.
Period Time: Classical
Form: Opera/Operetta
Written: 1787

Donizetti, Gaetano : Don Pasquale :: Act 3. Finale. Senz'andar lungi - La moral di tutto questo

Performers: Juan Flórez (Tenor); Simone Alaimo (Bass Baritone); Mariusz Kwiecien (Baritone); Anna Netrebko (Soprano)
Conductor: Maurizio Benini
Running Time: 4 min. 4 sec.
Period Time: Romantic
Written: 1843

Verdi, Giuseppe : Rigoletto :: Act 3. Trio. Ah, piú non ragiono!

Performers: Nancy Herrera (Mezzo Soprano); Anna Netrebko (Soprano); Eric Halfvarson (Bass)
Conductor: Asher Fisch
Running Time: 6 min. 17 sec.
Period Time: Romantic
Form: Opera/Operetta
Written: 1851

Gounod, Charles : Roméo et Juliette :: Act 4. Duet. Va! je t'ai pardonné - Nuit d'hyménée!

Performers: Roberto Alagna (Tenor); Anna Netrebko (Soprano)
Conductor: Placido Domingo
Notes: Composition written: 1865-71.
Running Time: 11 min. 4 sec.
Period Time: Romantic
Form: Opera/Operetta
Written: 1865-1871

Gounod, Charles : Roméo et Juliette :: Act 4. Scene and Aria. Dieu! Quel frisson- Amour, ranime mon courage

Performer: Anna Netrebko (Soprano)
Conductor: Placido Domingo
Notes: Composition written: 1865-71.
Running Time: 6 min. sec.
Period Time: Romantic
Form: Opera/Operetta
Written: 1865-1871

Donizetti, Gaetano : Lucia di Lammermoor :: Part 2. Act 2. Scene and Aria. Eccola! - Il dolce suono - Ardon gl'incensi

Performers: Cecilia Brauer; Ildar Abdrazakov (Bass); Michael Vocals] (Tenor); Anna Netrebko (Soprano)
Conductor: Marco Armiliato
Running Time: 12 min. 59 sec.
Period Time: Romantic
Form: Opera/Operetta
Written: 1835

Offenbach, Jacques : Les Contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann) :: Act 3. Duet. Pourtant, ô ma fiancée - C'est une chans

Performers: Joseph Calleja (Tenor); Anna Netrebko (Soprano)
Conductor: James Levine
Running Time: 3 min. 59 sec.
Period Time: Romantic
Form: Opera/Operetta

Puccini, Giacomo : La bohème :: Act 3. Aria. D'onde lieta uscì

Performer: Anna Netrebko (Soprano)
Conductor: Marco Armiliato
Running Time: 3 min. 29 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Form: Opera/Operetta
Written: 1896

Puccini, Giacomo : La bohème :: Act 1. Duet. O soave fanciulla

Performers: Anna Netrebko (Soprano); Piotr Beczala (Tenor); Gerald Finley (Bass Baritone)
Conductor: Marco Armiliato
Running Time: 4 min. 33 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Form: Opera/Operetta
Written: 1896

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