Anna Netrebko: Verismo

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all sung with plenty of voice and abandon...when she settles into a long extract from Puccini’s Manon Lescaut, with tenor husband Yusif Eyvazov and Antonio Pappano conducting, the recital hits... — Financial Times, 26th August 2016, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 2nd Sep 2016
Catalogue No: 4795015
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Length: 68 minutes

Presto Recording of the Week

2nd September 2016
Diapason d’Or de l’Année

2016

Winner - Récital Vocal
Presto Recordings of the Year

Finalist 2016

Cilea: Adriana Lecouvreur / Act 1

Work length3:42

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Anna Netrebko (soprano)
Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Antonio Pappano
Recorded: 2016-06
Recording Venue: Auditorium Parco della Musica, Sala Santa Cecilia, Roma

"Ecco: respiro appena ... Io son l'umile ancella"

Track length3:42

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Giordano, U: Andrea Chénier / Act 3

Work length4:58

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Anna Netrebko (soprano)
Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Antonio Pappano
Recorded: 2016-06
Recording Venue: Auditorium Parco della Musica, Sala Santa Cecilia, Roma

"La mamma morta"

Track length4:58

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Puccini: Madama Butterfly / Act 2

Work length4:31

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Anna Netrebko (soprano)
Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Antonio Pappano
Recorded: 2016-06
Recording Venue: Auditorium Parco della Musica, Sala Santa Cecilia, Roma

"Un bel dì vedremo"

Track length4:31

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Puccini: Turandot / Act 1

Work length2:38

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Anna Netrebko (soprano)
Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Antonio Pappano
Recorded: 2016-06
Recording Venue: Auditorium Parco della Musica, Sala Santa Cecilia, Roma

"Signore, ascolta!"

Track length2:38

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Leoncavallo: Pagliacci / Act 1

Work length4:31

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Anna Netrebko (soprano)
Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Antonio Pappano
Recorded: 2016-06
Recording Venue: Auditorium Parco della Musica, Sala Santa Cecilia, Roma

"Qual fiamma avea nel guardo! ... Stridono lassù"

Track length4:31

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Catalani: La Wally / Act 1

Work length3:54

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Anna Netrebko (soprano)
Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Antonio Pappano
Recorded: 2016-06
Recording Venue: Auditorium Parco della Musica, Sala Santa Cecilia, Roma

"Ebben? Ne andrò lontana"

Track length3:54

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Boito: Mefistofele / Act 3

Work length6:52

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Anna Netrebko (soprano)
Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Antonio Pappano
Recorded: 2016-06
Recording Venue: Auditorium Parco della Musica, Sala Santa Cecilia, Roma

"L'altra notte in fondo al mare"

Track length6:52

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Ponchielli: La Gioconda / Act 4

Work length4:34

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Anna Netrebko (soprano)
Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Antonio Pappano
Recorded: 2016-06
Recording Venue: Auditorium Parco della Musica, Sala Santa Cecilia, Roma

"Suicidio! In questi fieri momenti"

Track length4:34

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Puccini: Tosca / Act 2

Work length3:26

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Anna Netrebko (soprano)
Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Antonio Pappano
Recorded: 2016-06
Recording Venue: Auditorium Parco della Musica, Sala Santa Cecilia, Roma

"Vissi d'arte, vissi d'amore"

Track length3:26

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Puccini: Turandot / Act 2

Work length6:12

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Anna Netrebko (soprano), Yusif Eyvazov (tenor)
Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Antonio Pappano
Recorded: 2016-06
Recording Venue: Auditorium Parco della Musica, Sala Santa Cecilia, Roma

"In questa reggia"

Track length6:12

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Puccini: Manon Lescaut / Act 2

Work length2:47

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Anna Netrebko (soprano)
Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Antonio Pappano
Recorded: 2016-06
Recording Venue: Auditorium Parco della Musica, Sala Santa Cecilia, Roma

"In quelle trine morbide"

Track length2:47

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Puccini: Manon Lescaut / Act 4

Work length20:38

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Anna Netrebko (soprano), Yusif Eyvazov (tenor)
Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Antonio Pappano
Recorded: 2016-06
Recording Venue: Auditorium Parco della Musica, Sala Santa Cecilia, Roma

"Tutta su me ti posa"

Track length2:55

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"Manon, senti, amor mio"

Track length1:59

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"Sei tu che piangi?"

Track length4:37

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"Sola perduta, abbandonata"

Track length4:25

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"Fra le tue braccia amore"

Track length6:42

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Recording of the Week, Anna Netrebko sings Verismo arias

2nd September 2016

Katherine listens to the Russian soprano's latest disc, featuring arias by Puccini, Cilea, Leoncavallo and more.

The “Diva Assoluta del Mondo” (Opera News) is back, as you have never heard her before!

With VERISMO Anna Netrebko presents her long-awaited new studio album – the first in three years – displaying her remarkable vocal maturity and reaffirming her status as one of the leading sopranos of her generation.

For Anna Netrebko herself, it was the obvious next step; for her public it promises to be a revelation. The challenging verismo repertoire offers a fascinating portrait of Netrebko’s voice in its full maturity. Having reached the latest peak in an already sensational career, the soprano continues her vocal and artistic development in logical fashion, illuminating the stylistic and psychological complexities of verismo with her own special intensity and powers of expression.

Set to be one of the most important and anticipated classical releases of 2016.

VERISMO features Netrebko in the greatest, most irresistible hits of the Grand Italian repertoire of the fading 19th Century, with arias by Puccini, Leoncavallo, Ponchielli, Boito, Giordano, Catalani.

Showcasing brand new interpretations of some of the greatest and most popular opera arias of all time.

A winning classical music team – Anna Netrebko and Sir Antonio Pappano – now joined on record for the very first time by her husband and tenor Yusif Eyvazov.

Anna Netrebko has reached the heart of the rich, mature dramatic repertoire that allows her to showcase the sheer beauty, endless, wide range of colours and emotion in combination with her distinct and beloved timbre that sets her apart from any other artist, past or present. In many ways this album is a self-discovery for this unique artist, and is destined to reach Anna’s widest fan-base.

Verismo at the turn of the last century introduced "real life" experience to opera and left behind the romantic approach of Belcanto. Netrebko’s recent performances of Verdi’s “Macbeth” and “Il Trovatore" but also her role debut of "Manon Lescaut" in March 2014 in Rome, have shown that Netrebko is able to combine the most beautiful sound production with the harsh, sometimes brutal and scary reality of those heroines she is awaking to life for us.

Reviews

26th August 2016

all sung with plenty of voice and abandon...when she settles into a long extract from Puccini’s Manon Lescaut, with tenor husband Yusif Eyvazov and Antonio Pappano conducting, the recital hits an impressively impassioned peak

October 2016

[We get] as sense of a real person engaged in a real drama, of Manon and Des Grieux in the direst of straits, as Netrebko and her tenor (and husband), Yusif Eyvazov, tug at the heart strings. His voice is pleasingly grainy…[and Netrebko] sounds in good voice, too: darker, richer in tone than previously on disc and full across the range.

November 2016

There is no denying, however, her ability to convey in sound the sensual beauty of these largely tragic heroines (only Turandot survives at the end), as well as the great weight of sadness that most of them carry within them. And in the final 20 minutes of the recital—devoted to the fourth act of Manon Lescaut—she achieves a moving individuality of expression alongside her solid partner (and offstage husband), the Azerbaijani tenor Yusif Eyvazov.

2nd September 2016

Everything’s sung with no-holds-barred abandon and emotional commitment...there’s strength and sweetness aplenty, aided by idiomatic detailed and often superbly delicate support from Pappano and his Roman orchestra...Like Cleopatra, Netrebko ‘makes hungry where she most satisfies’, and I can’t wait to see where she goes next with this repertoire.

4th September 2016

[Manon Lescaut], along with the Riddle Scene from Turandot, is Netrebko close to her best. she could declaim the text more incisively, but there is no denying the glory of her voice, more “fleshy” in timbre and exciting at the top, or its suitability for Puccini’s Tosca and Butterfly. Pappano’s deluxe accompaniments are sumptuously played.

15th September 2016

Extracts from 10 operas show her voice reaching an exciting maturity, its increased weight matched by even more gleam, fizz and expressive projection. She has yet to sing most of these roles on stage, but inhabits them convincingly...Pappano is, as ever, the ideal supportive conductor, and the orchestra plays as if it loves Netrebko’s every note.

26th August 2016

her rich, dark chocolate and red wine tone is the main sell here, along with her satisfyingly growly low register and wall-shaking (even through your home speakers) top notes...Pappano and the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia also go full pelt, swaggering, moody and full-blooded throughout.

San Francisco Chronicle 1st September 2016

The results are nothing short of magnificent. In familiar excerpts by Cilea, Giordani, Puccini and more, Netrebko deploys her increasingly dark and weighty vocal tone, along with the expressive fervor that has always been a hallmark, to produce readings that excite and delight the listener.

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