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| Anna Netrebko: official 2009-10 schedule |
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Anna Netrebko’s 2009-10 Season Includes U.S. Release of La bohème The Movie and Return to Met for Bart Sher’s New Production of Les contes d’Hoffmann Anna's website “Reigning New Diva” Performs Four Back-to-Back Roles at Vienna State Opera and Makes Appearances in Berlin, London, Paris, and St. Petersburg Anna Netrebko’s first full season of performances since the birth of her son is highlighted by a new Metropolitan Opera production of Offenbach’s Les contes d’Hoffmann, directed by Tony Award-winner Bartlett Sher, and opening on December 3 in New York. Meanwhile, this month sees the Russian soprano on the big screen, when Emerging Pictures releases a feature film version of La bohème, in which she stars alongside Mexican tenor Rolando Villazón. Puccini’s Mimì is also one of the four characters Netrebko will portray at the Vienna State Opera, where she takes on four leading operatic roles over a six-week period near the season’s end. In the Met’s new production of Offenbach’s Les contes d’Hoffmann, Netrebko appears as the young Antonia. Audiences worldwide will be able to see her in the role, thanks to the Met: Live In HD movie theater broadcast of the matinee performance on December 19. The soprano’s castmates in this production include rising star mezzo Kate Lindsey as Nicklausse and Maltese tenor Joseph Calleja as Hoffmann. Alan Held plays the four villains, and Metropolitan Opera Artistic Director James Levine conducts. Anna Netrebko will also reprise her signature role of Mimì in the Met’s beloved Franco Zeffirelli production of La bohème, opening February 20. But those looking to get their Puccini fix before the new year will be delighted this month, when Emerging Pictures releases a feature film version of La bohème, starring Netrebko and Rolando Villazón. The movie, which was filmed in 2008 in Vienna and is directed by Oscar- and Emmy-nominated director Robert Dornhelm, will be shown in theaters in select cities starting September 23. Information on exact show times and locations, as well as a list of participating venues, is available at www.labohemethemovie.com/showtimes. The theatrical trailer for La bohème can be viewed at labohemethemovie.com/trailer. To coincide with the film’s release, Deutsche Grammophon has issued an iTunes exclusive release called La bohème – Five Favorites, which features five must-have selections from the full-length version of Netrebko and Villazón’s recording of the opera, and which will be available for only $3.99. A more traditional highlights recording will follow, both in physical and digital versions, later in the year. Netrebko and Villazón’s complete recording of La bohème, which is used as the movie’s soundtrack, was released in 2008 on DG. Further season highlights Netrebko opens the opera season in St. Petersburg at her home theater, the storied Mariinsky, singing the title role in Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta under her early mentor, Valery Gergiev. She first sang Iolanta in Baden-Baden, Germany over the summer. Also this month, she makes debuts in the concert halls of Copenhagen, Oslo, and Stockholm with tenor Massimo Giordano and conductor Emmanuel Villaume. The mini-tour also touches down in Paris’s historic Salle Pleyel on October 1 for her concert debut there, this time with Keri-Lynn Wilson at the podium. Across town at the Opéra National de Paris, Netrebko sings Adina in four October performances of Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore. Before returning to New York for her Met Bohème, the soprano makes her Royal Festival Hall debut in London in a concert with Dmitri Hvorostovsky on January 18. One of Netrebko’s most anticipated European appearances comes on March 29, 2010, when she gives a recital with pianist Daniel Barenboim at the Berlin State Opera. Over the summer at the Salzburg Festival, the two performed a well-received program entirely devoted to songs by Rimsky-Korsakov and Tchaikovsky; the Wiener Zeitung found Netrebko to be: “not an opera diva on the stage, but a matured singer able to interpret every line, every word in music.” As the season nears its end, Anna Netrebko returns to her most doting audience, at the Vienna State Opera, to portray a quartet of favorite opera characters in La bohème, I puritani, Manon, and Carmen (Micaela) over a period of just six weeks. Her season finale will be a reprise of the title role in Massenet’s Manon for seven performances in June and July at London’s Royal Opera House. Anna Netrebko: official 2009-10 schedule September 24, 2009 (DEBUT) Stockholm, Sweden Konserthuset Stockholm Philharmonic / Emmanuel Villaume Massimo Giordano, tenor September 28, 2009 St. Petersburg, Russia Mariinsky Theatre / Valery Gergiev Tchaikovsky: Iolanta (title role) October 1, 2009 (DEBUT) Paris, France Salle Pleyel Orchestre National d’Ile-de-France / Keri-Lynn Wilson Massimo Giordano, tenor October 10, 15, 20, and 23, 2009 Paris, France Opéra National de Paris Donizetti: L’elisir d’amore (Adina) December 3, 7, 11, 16, 19, 23, 26, and 30, 2009; January 2, 2010 Metropolitan Opera Les contes d’Hoffmann (Antonia) January 18 (DEBUT) London, UK Philharmonia Orchestra Royal Festival Hall Concert with Dmitri Hvorostovsky February 20, 24, and 27; March 2, 6, 10, 13, 17, and 20, 2009 New York, NY Metropolitan Opera Puccini: La bohème (Mimì) March 29, 2010 Berlin, Germany Berlin State Opera Recital with Daniel Barenboim April 5 and 8, 2010 Vienna, Austria Vienna State Opera Puccini: La bohème (Mimì) April 19, 22, and 25, 2010 Vienna, Austria Vienna State Opera Bellini: I puritani (Elvira) May 3, 6, 9, 12, and 15, 2010 Vienna, Austria Vienna State Opera Bizet: Carmen (Micaela) May 18 and 21, 2010 Vienna, Austria Vienna State Opera Massenet: Manon (title role) June 22, 25, and 28; July 1, 4, 7, and 10, 2010 London, UK Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Massenet: Manon (title role) Anna Netrebko: upcoming CD and DVD releases La bohème – Five Favorites Deutsche Grammophon Released on Sep 15 (iTunes exclusive) Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor (2 DVDs) Deutsche Grammophon Release Date: Nov 10 La bohème – The Highlights (CD) Deutsche Grammophon Release Date: Nov 24 La bohème (DVD) Kultur International Films Release Date: Dec 15 |
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