Anna Netrebko
Anna Netrebko Yuryevna (Russian Анна Юрьевна Нетребко, scientific transliteration Anna Netrebko Jur'evna; born September 18, 1971 in Krasnodar, USSR) is a Russian, world-renowned opera singer in the vocal range soprano. Since 2006 she is also in possession of the Austrian citizenship.
Career as a singer
Anna Netrebko studied singing at the Rimsky- Korsakov Conservatory in St. Petersburg. After winning the 1993 Glinka Vocal Competition in Moscow, it was established in 1994 engaged by the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg. There, she made her debut in the same year as Susanna in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro. This production subsequently guested on August 6, 1994, at the Schleswig- Holstein Music Festival (Director: Justus Frantz ) in Stade, Germany where therefore Netrebko's debut took place. In 1995, the Mariinsky Theatre were under the direction of Valery Gergiev a guest appearance in San Francisco. Netrebko sang the Glinka Ruslan and Lyudmila in Lyudmila. After the excellent reviews this guest performance of their meteoric career began on the international opera stages. The San Francisco Chronicle already wrote at the time: " She is a singer who simply has everything. Voice of astounding purity, precision and versatility and wide dynamic and tonal scope, imagination, understanding and spirit - and added an overwhelming charisma"
Netrebko sang soon after at the major opera houses of the world, at the Metropolitan Opera in New York and at the Vienna State Opera, especially as Donna Anna in Mozart's Don Giovanni Gaetano Donizetti or as Adina in L' elisir d' amore. Since 1998 she performed regularly at the Salzburg Festival, where she worked as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt celebrated her international breakthrough in 2002. In the same year she made her debut at the Met as Natasha in the opera War and Peace by Sergei Prokofiev.
2003 Anna Netrebko sang the role of Gilda in Verdi's Rigoletto at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, the title role in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor at the Los Angeles Opera, and again as Donna Anna at the Royal Opera House.
After she had already recorded some audio recordings, released in 2004, the DVD The Woman, The Voice with MTV -like videos that made Netrebko to a pop star of the opera scene. Yet she makes no crossover compromises and sings exclusively classical music. The former hype about Netrebko, who often no longer revolved around artistic achievement, many critics commented negatively, in particular the German " Papa singing " Jürgen Kesting ( author of the three - volume work The great singer ).
2005 Netrebko both the Julia sang in the acclaimed production of Roméo et Juliette by Charles Gounod ( with Rolando Villazón as Roméo ) as well as the role of Adina in L'elisir d'amore by Donizetti. In the same year she took over at the Salzburg Festival in the title role of Violetta Valéry in Verdi's La Traviata (Conductor: Carlo Rizzi ) Rolando Villazón with in the role of Alfredo Germont, and Thomas Hampson as Germont. The production was enthusiastically received by the critics and by the spectators, also because of a TV transmission, which today is highly respected. Netrebko completed in 2005 for the first time a Japanese tour with a recital.
2006 Netrebko sang at New York's Metropolitan Opera in Donizetti's Don Pasquale directed by Otto Schenk and conducted by Maurizio Benini ( with Juan Diego Flórez and Simone Alberghini ). On 7 July 2006, it was two days before the final of the Football World Cup 2006 in Berlin, together with Plácido Domingo and Rolando Villazón a concert in the tradition of the Three Tenors concerts with which the World Championships from 1990 to 1998 to the end had gone. The concert was broadcast worldwide and was regarded as the hitherto most watched classical concert. In July and August 2006, Netrebko appeared at the Salzburg Festival as Susanna in the directed by Nikolaus Harnoncourt new production of Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, with which was opened on 26 July, the newly built House for Mozart (also TV broadcast on ORF and ARD). In November 2006, Anna Netrebko made her debut as Amina in Bellini's La Sonnambula bel canto opera at the Vienna State Opera.
In March 2007, Netrebko appeared at the Vienna State Opera in a new production of Jules Massenet's Manon, conducted by Bertrand de Billy and the director Andrei Şerban, which was broadcast live on Austrian television ORF. Since April 2007, Netrebko sang the same role at the Berlin State Opera. This was a co-production with the Los Angeles Opera, Rolando Villazón as Chevalier with des Grieux.
Caused a sensation Anna Netrebko in the summer of 2007, when they their commitment at the Salzburg Festival canceled at short notice due to vocal cord problems and by their non-appearance a discussion of the " carrying capacity of opera stars " triggered. The Last Night of the Proms on 8 September 2007 in London's Royal Albert Hall, however, she presented again with his usual vocal security. This was followed in November 2007, a series of three performances of the opera La Traviata at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. 2008 played and sang them, along with Rolando Villazón as Rodolfo in La Bohème by Giacomo Puccini.
On 14 January 2009 she returned to St. Petersburg Mariinsky Theatre in the title role of the opera Lucia di Lammermoor, after her pregnancy and subsequent time off again to the stage. The end of November 2009 they had Anna Netrebko's first "Best Of " album, can be heard on the selected arias and duets with partners Elina Garanca, Rolando Villazón and Thomas Quasthoff.
In April 2011, Anna Netrebko sang at the Vienna State Opera for the first time the title role of Gaetano Donizetti's opera Anna Bolena, conducted by Evelino Pidò. The idea of 5 April 2011 was broadcast live in arte.
August 1, 2012 Anna Netrebko has appeared in Giacomo Puccini's La Bohème at the Salzburg Festival again, this time with Piotr Beczala as Rodolfo. The opera was broadcast on ORF on the same day.
On November 29, 2013 Netrebko was in the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin her role debut as Leonora in Il Trovatore opera by Giuseppe Verdi, with Plácido Domingo as Count di Luna.
Family
Anna Netrebko is the daughter of an engineer and a geologist. In early summer 2007, she separated from her former partner, the baritone Simone Alberghini. From 2007 to 2013 Netrebko had a relationship with the Uruguayan bass-baritone Erwin Schrott. The two have a son Tiago (* 2008).
End of 2013, Netrebko announced in an interview with the Russian TV program " Pus't govorjat " ( "Let them talk " ) at which her son had been diagnosed with a weak form of autism.
Citizenship
Resident has Netrebko in St. Petersburg, where she remains a member of the ensemble at the Mariinsky Theatre. However, their performances in St Petersburg are scarce ( for example, a song recital in July 2004 at the Mariinsky Theatre as part of the White Nights Festival ). More frequently used residences are Vienna (since February / March 2007) and New York.
After Netrebko had applied for in March 2006 in Vienna for Austrian nationality, naturalization in the Council of Ministers of 25 July 2006 was approved by the Austrian Federal Government, although she speaks neither German nor lives in Austria. Previously Netrebko was in her home country occasionally as " characterless " and has been called a "traitor ". However, they pointed to the rigorous visa regime for Russian citizens, which made it impossible for her to fully be internationally active as an artist. They wanted to keep the Russian citizenship, "Of course I am and remain a Russian ".
On 1 August 2006 Netrebko was officially awarded Austrian citizenship in Salzburg.