The Sopranos: Anna Netrebko
>> Saturday, January 3, 2009
I first heard this amazing singer in a PBS broadcast from Salzburg of the 2006 Mozart 250th birthday celebrations. She sang Electra's "mad" aria from Mozart's Idomeneo and I was completely taken in. Angry. Powerful. Beautiful.
Anna Netrebko, born in Krasnador, Russia in 1971, studied voice with Valery Girgiev of the Mariinsky Theater of St. Petersburg, Russia. In 2006 she moved to Vienna and applied for Austrian citizenship and received it in July of that same year.
3 comments:
She's wonderful. And just darn gorgeous, too. She has a Maria Callas thing going on, doesn't she?
I think she has Callas beat in every aspect. (I know, I'm going to hell, but I never have been a real Callas fan.)
Thank you. And Utube has led me to her Traviata, my favourite opera, and I though Sills could never be surpassed. Her body movements in both are the stuff of great acting under her inspiring voice.
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