Amata dalle tenebre Anna Netrebko

• Francesco Cilea (1866 - 1950): Adriana Lecouvreur:
• 1 Cilea: Adriana Lecouvreur: Poveri fiori 03:22
• Henry Purcell (1659 - 1695): Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626:
• 2 Purcell: Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Thy hand, Belinda 01:21
• 3 Purcell: Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: When I am laid in earth "Dido's Lament" 03:56
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893): Pique Dame, Op. 68, TH. 10:
• 4 Tchaikovsky: Pique Dame, Op. 68, TH. 10: Uzh polnoch blitzitsya 02:04
• 5 Tchaikovsky: Pique Dame, Op. 68, TH. 10: Akh, istomilas ya gorem 03:41
• Richard Strauss (1864 - 1949): Ariadne auf Naxos, Op. 60, TrV 228:
• 6 R. Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos, Op. 60, TrV 228: Es gibt ein Reich 06:14
• Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901): Aida:
• 7 Verdi: Aida: Ritorna vincitor! 03:42
• 8 Verdi: Aida: Numi, pietà 03:33
• Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883): Tannhäuser, WWV 70:
• 9 Wagner: Tannhäuser, WWV 70: Dich, teure Halle – Introduction 01:39
• 10 Wagner: Tannhäuser, WWV 70: Dich, teure Halle 03:09
• Giacomo Puccini (1858 - 1924): Madama Butterfly, SC 74:
• 11 Puccini: Madama Butterfly, SC 74: Un bel dì vedremo 05:08
• Richard Wagner: Lohengrin, WWV 75:
• 12 Wagner: Lohengrin, WWV 75: Einsam in trüben Tagen 05:28
• Giuseppe Verdi: Don Carlo:
• 13 Verdi: Don Carlo: Tu che le vanità – Introduction 02:17
• 14 Verdi: Don Carlo: Tu che le vanità 08:54
• Giacomo Puccini: Manon Lescaut, SC 64:
• 15 Puccini: Manon Lescaut, SC 64: Sola, perduta, abbandonata – Introduction 00:42
• 16 Puccini: Manon Lescaut, SC 64: Sola, perduta, abbandonata 04:39
• Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, WWV 90:
• 17 Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, WWV 90: Prelude To Act I 11:22
• 18 Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, WWV 90: Mild und leise wie er lächelt "Isoldes Liebestod" 07:34
• Total Runtime 01:18:45

Info for Amata dalle tenebre

Superstar soprano Anna Netrebko releases her first classical solo album "Amata Dalle Tenebre" for five years.

Features arias by Puccini, Verdi, Wagner, Strauss and Purcell: The new album features some of the most dramatic and impassioned arias including Puccini’s ‘Un Bel dì Vedremo’, sung by Madama Butterfly; ‘Sola, Perduta, Abbandonata!’ from Puccini’s Manon Lescaut; ‘Tu che le Vanità’ from Verdi’s Don Carlo; ‘Poveri Fiori’ from Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur and includes Anna Netrebko’s debut recordings of ‘Liebestod’ from Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde; ‘Ritorna Vincitor!’ from Verdi’s Aida; ‘Es gibt ein Reich’ from Richard Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos; Lisa’s Aria from Tchaikovsky’s Pique Dame and ‘When I am Laid in Earth’ from Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas.

Anna Netrebko recorded Amata Dalle Tenebre at Milan’s La Scala, with the Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala under La Scala’s Music Director, Riccardo Chailly. The deluxe edition includes a Blu-ray music film, Anna – Stage of Emotions, made during the recording sessions at La Scala. Anna Netrebko worked with renowned filmmaker Elena Petitti di Roreto to record music videos for four of the tracks on her new album. Anna – Stage of Emotions explores some of the powerful themes that run through this music, from love and hope to death and despair, and captures Anna Netrebko’s portrayals of four operatic heroines – Aida, Lisa, Dido and Isolde. Interwoven with the music videos is an insightful interview with Netrebko, who discusses both the roles and her own life.

Anna Netrebko recognizes that, “I really become a character when on stage in costume with colleagues,” and in the recording studio, as she explains, “[as] all these pieces are very different, I needed to even change my vocal technique from Verdi to Wagner to Strauss and Tchaikovsky. The vocal approach and a very precise reading of the musical text is the most important thing, to get into the character, because the composers already knew what they wanted to do and everything that they want to do is there. For me, it’s just a duty to read it in the right way and to portray it.”

Anna Netrebko, soprano
La Scala Orchestra
Riccardo Chailly, conductor

Anna Netrebko
has transcended the boundaries typical of classical music stardom to become one of the world’s most widely recognized and highly regarded opera singers. Regularly headlining productions at virtually all of the world’s leading opera houses, the Russian soprano has been hailed as “the reigning new diva of the early 21st century.”[i] In 2007 she became the first classical musician to be named to the Time 100 list, Time magazine’s list of the most influential people in the world. Her beautiful, dark, distinctive voice and her elegant and alluring stage presence have prompted critics to hail her as “Audrey Hepburn with a voice” and “a singer who simply has it all: a voice of astounding purity, precision, and scope, extensive dynamic and tonal range, imagination, insight, and wit – all combined with a dazzling charisma that makes it all but impossible to look away when she is performing.”[ii]

Since her triumphant Salzburg Festival debut in 2002 as Donna Anna in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Anna Netrebko has gone on to appear with nearly all of the world’s great opera companies, including the Metropolitan Opera, the San Francisco Opera, London’s Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Milan’s Teatro alla Scala, the Vienna State Opera, the Paris Opera, the Zurich Opera, the Berlin State Opera, and Munich’s Bavarian State Opera. She frequently returns to the Kirov Opera at the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg (where she made her stage debut as Susanna in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro) to collaborate with her longtime mentor, conductor Valery Gergiev. Her other signature roles include Mimì in Puccini’s La bohème; Violetta in Verdi’s La traviata; Giulietta in Bellini’s I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Elvira in his I puritani, and Amina in his La sonnambula; Donna Anna in Mozart’s Don Giovanni; Norina in Donizetti’s Don Pasquale, Adina in his L’elisir d’amore, and the title roles in his Lucia di Lammermoor and Anna Bolena; the title role in Massenet’s Manon; Juliette in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette; and the title role in Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta. Netrebko also appears extensively in concerts throughout the world, both in revered music venues such as New York’s Carnegie Hall and in arenas in front of tens of thousands of people. Her outdoor concerts at Berlin’s Waldbühne and at Vienna’s Schönbrunn Palace, where she has shared the stage with artists such as Plácido Domingo, are often internationally televised events. She is a fixture at the Salzburg Festival and has headlined the famous Last Night of the BBC Proms in London. Netrebko also frequently appears in recital with the world’s leading artists, including Daniel Barenboim.

In September Anna Netrebko returned to the Metropolitan Opera, where she made her debut in 2002 as Natasha in Prokofiev’s War and Peace, to headline her second consecutive season opening night gala. After her star turn last year as the tragic title character in the Met premiere of Donizetti’s Anna Bolena, she opened the house’s 2012-13 season as the irresistible Adina in Donizetti’s comic gem, L’elisir d’amore, in a new staging by Tony Award-winning director Bartlett Sher. Following her successful La Scala debut in Don Giovanni last season, she returned to famed theater in October with her signature portrayal of the ill-fated Mimì in La bohème. The role will also be the vehicle for her Lyric Opera of Chicago debut this spring in a new-to-the-house production of the Puccini opera. Other highlights of the soprano’s exciting 2012-13 season include a European concert tour in the title role of Tchaikovsky’s rarely-heard one-act opera Iolanta this November, and her role debut as Tatyana in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin in her return to the Vienna State Opera.

Anna Netrebko boasts an extensive discography that includes solo albums, complete opera recordings, concert repertoire. Her solo discs for Deutsche Grammophon – Opera Arias, Sempre Libera, Russian Album, Souvenirs, In the Still of Night, and Anna Netrebko: Live at the Metropolitan Opera – have all been bestsellers, as have her full-length opera recordings of La traviata, Le nozze di Figaro, La bohème, and I Capuleti e i Montecchi. Highlights from Netrebko’s videography include DVD or blue-ray discs of Ruslan and Lyudmila, Betrothal in a Monastery, La traviata, Le nozze di Figaro, I puritani, Manon, Lucia, Don Pasquale, and Anna Bolena; a feature film release of La bohème directed by Robert Dornhelm; and a DVD of music videos, titled Anna Netrebko: The Woman, The Voice. Her CD Duets, with tenor Rolando Villazón, set a record for the best European debut ever for a classical album, climbing to the top of the pop charts in several countries.

In 2007, the year she was named to the Time 100 list, Netrebko serenaded film director Martin Scorsese on the CBS broadcast of the 30th Annual Kennedy Center Honors, and the following year she performed on the BBC telecast of the Classical BRIT Awards alongside Andrea Bocelli. Netrebko has been profiled in numerous magazines, including Vogue, Vanity Fair, and Town & Country, to name but a few. She has also been featured on television shows such as ABC’s Good Morning America, NBC’s The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, CBS’s 60 Minutes, CNN’s Revealed, and Germany’s Wetten, dass..? Documentaries about her have been televised in Austria, Denmark, Germany, Russia, and Switzerland.

Anna Netrebko’s other honors and awards include Grammy nominations for her recordings Violetta and Russian Album; Musical America’s 2008 “Musician of the Year;” Germany’s prestigious Bambi Award; the UK’s Classical BRIT Awards for “Singer of the Year” and “Female Artist of the Year;” and nine German ECHO Klassik awards. In 2005, she was awarded the Russian State Prize – the country’s highest award in the field of arts and literature – by President Vladimir Putin; in 2008 the president bestowed on her the title of “People’s Artist of Russia.”

Born in 1971 in Krasnodar, Russia, Anna Netrebko studied vocal performance at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. An avid advocate for children’s causes, she supports a number of charitable organizations, including SOS-Kinderdorf International and the Russian Children’s Welfare Society. Since 2006 she has been a global ambassador for Chopard jewelry.

[i] Charles Michener, New York Observer
[ii] Joshua Kosman, San Francisco Chronicle
[iii] Verena Dobnik, Associated Press

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