After astonishing debuts as an unknown young singer, Anna Netrebko is now one of the world's favorite opera heroines. Now, for the first time, she's ready to lavish her pure, powerful voice on composers from her homeland, in a program of some of the most beautiful arias and songs in the Russian repertoire.
Russian Songs is a deeply personal recording, made in the opera house where she first found stardom, St. Petersburg's Mariinsky Theatre, and conducted by Anna's mentor and friend who has championed her from the start: Valery Gergiev.
This collection includes Anna in her signature role, Natasha from Prokofiev's War and Peace - which launched her career at the Metropolitan Opera in 2002. In addition, Anna gives listeners a taste of roles yet to come with Tatiana's letter scene from Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin.
Anna Netrebko has made it her mission to bring opera to a wider public. Following the huge success of her last solo recording Sempre Libera and the acclaimed Salburg La Traviata releases, Anna will show once again that she knows how to captivate audiences.
"Her radiant voice, to my ears, is less that of a Grande Dame and more that of the girl next door who happens to be a world-class opera singer...The high note she softly floats in Rachmaninoff's song "Zdes' khoroso" (How Beautiful It Is Here) makes you want to capture it in a jar." - John Marks, Stereophile Magazine, December Issue, Vol. 30, No. 12, Page 49
"...if you think she's coasting on her looks, you haven't heard her sing - or seen her act...her voice is as gorgeous as the rest of her." - The New York Post
"Be forewarned: Netrebko can be habit-forming." - The Washington Post
Musicians:
Anna Netrebko, soprano
Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre
Valery Gergiev, conductor
Selections:
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
1. Iolanta: Otago eto prelde ne znala ni toski ya
Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
2. Twelve Songs, Op. 21, No. 7
3. Six Songs, Op. 4, No. 4
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)
4. The Tale of Tsar Saltan: Aria
5. The Snow Maiden: Scene and Aria
6. The Snow Maiden: Finale
7. The Tsar's Bride: Scene and Aria
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
8. Six Romances, Op. 38, No. 6
Mikhail Glinka (1804-1857)
9. A Life for the Tsar: Cavatina and Rondo
Serge Prokofiev (1891-1953)
10. War and Peace: Aria
Sergei Rachmaninov
11. Francesca da Rimini
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
12. Eugene Onegin: Letter Scene
Russian Songs is a deeply personal recording, made in the opera house where she first found stardom, St. Petersburg's Mariinsky Theatre, and conducted by Anna's mentor and friend who has championed her from the start: Valery Gergiev.
This collection includes Anna in her signature role, Natasha from Prokofiev's War and Peace - which launched her career at the Metropolitan Opera in 2002. In addition, Anna gives listeners a taste of roles yet to come with Tatiana's letter scene from Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin.
Anna Netrebko has made it her mission to bring opera to a wider public. Following the huge success of her last solo recording Sempre Libera and the acclaimed Salburg La Traviata releases, Anna will show once again that she knows how to captivate audiences.
"Her radiant voice, to my ears, is less that of a Grande Dame and more that of the girl next door who happens to be a world-class opera singer...The high note she softly floats in Rachmaninoff's song "Zdes' khoroso" (How Beautiful It Is Here) makes you want to capture it in a jar." - John Marks, Stereophile Magazine, December Issue, Vol. 30, No. 12, Page 49
"...if you think she's coasting on her looks, you haven't heard her sing - or seen her act...her voice is as gorgeous as the rest of her." - The New York Post
"Be forewarned: Netrebko can be habit-forming." - The Washington Post
Musicians:
Anna Netrebko, soprano
Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre
Valery Gergiev, conductor
Selections:
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
1. Iolanta: Otago eto prelde ne znala ni toski ya
Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
2. Twelve Songs, Op. 21, No. 7
3. Six Songs, Op. 4, No. 4
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)
4. The Tale of Tsar Saltan: Aria
5. The Snow Maiden: Scene and Aria
6. The Snow Maiden: Finale
7. The Tsar's Bride: Scene and Aria
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
8. Six Romances, Op. 38, No. 6
Mikhail Glinka (1804-1857)
9. A Life for the Tsar: Cavatina and Rondo
Serge Prokofiev (1891-1953)
10. War and Peace: Aria
Sergei Rachmaninov
11. Francesca da Rimini
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
12. Eugene Onegin: Letter Scene
