Anna Netrebko’s new accompanist is… Andrea Bocelli

Anna Netrebko’s new accompanist is… Andrea Bocelli

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norman lebrecht

August 05, 2021

Summer is a time to make new friends.

How long before this gets on stage?

 

 

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  • HugoPreuss says:

    And now we need to add “a large orchestra” conducted by André Rieux, and the highest possible musicommercial success is guaranteed.

    • Petros Linardos says:

      Style and personal tastes aside, I find Rieux musically competent. I can’t say the same about Bocelli trying to sing.

  • Petros LInardos says:

    Bocelli the pianist sounds infinitely better than Bocelli the singer, by far.

  • Helden Sopran says:

    they really are tacky people! no two ways about it! no wonder the lady in question when once suggested she sings Fidelio, her answer was “but I hate Beethoven!” oops OK no more suggestions for you lady!!!!!!

  • Jon Eiche says:

    Wow, the cattiness and snobbery on SD are reaching new levels. How sad that some people are no longer able simply to enjoy something for what it is. De gustibus non est disputandum, I guess.

  • Tom Phillips says:

    Couldn’t be worse than his “singing”. What hideously tacky people they all are (including Netrebko’s genocide-inciting husband).

  • Peter X says:

    Let’s not exagerate. These “tacky” people are just enjoying a silly afternoon and making and even sillier, unnecessary, superfluous little film. We can all live perfectly well without it.

    Sarah Brightman/JanVayne/AndréRieu/Yanni/Jenkins/Church/
    les soeurs Bertholet….et tutti quanti, let them be. Don’t show, don’t watch, don’t listen and take care of your nerves and heartbeat.

    Btw, it is André Rieu, not Rieux.

    • Petros Linardos says:

      They publicize their time, knowing it will be seen and discussed all over the world. That’s “sillyness” with an agenda.

      Thanks for pointing out Rieu!

    • Sue Sonata Form says:

      None of those names is to my taste but people obviously do enjoy their musical offerings (cough).

      Leave them to their indulgences and they’ll leave us to ours.

  • Save the MET says:

    He was doing the same thing with Bartoli a few months ago. I bet he is going to follow in the footsteps of Pavarotti with a Bocelli and friends recording(s) and tour. It likely will sell out with outrageous ticket prices in stadiums throughout the world. Looking at it from the glass as half full; as far as I’m concerned, if it brings people who would not otherwise go hear classical singing/opera and perhaps gets them to find opera compelling enough to go out and buy tickets in the future for and opera, it’s not a bad idea. The end result however will end up being a bunch of nouveau riche middle aged hausfraus dragging their husbands out for their worst nightmare and a nap.

    • Tom Phillips says:

      No genuine lover of opera is a Bocelli fan. His “crowd” appears to be a vast audience of suburban housewives who in the past would have gravitated to the likes of Perry Como or Jerry Vale (to be fair, far more talented performers than Bocelli).

    • Sue Sonata Form says:

      ‘The end result however will end up being a bunch of nouveau riche middle aged hausfraus dragging their husbands out for their worst nightmare and a nap’.

      You mean like at the Musikverein? Gotta love those sexist stereotypes.

    • Petros LInardos says:

      The argument of bringing in new audiences was also said of the three tenors concerts. Unlike anything by Bocelli, the three tenors concerts included lot of real, high quality opera aria singing. Their first, and arguably the best, was 31 years ago. Where are the new audiences they brought in?

  • Peter says:

    At least he still had some voice (and more class concerning his partners) when he sang with Gheorghiu, now it’s only a big circus…

    https://youtu.be/rZ1e2ArhpaQ

    https://youtu.be/X3fCkT6sTIk

  • Peter says:

    At least he still had some voice (and more class concerning his partners) when he sang with Gheorghiu, now it’s only a circus…

    https://youtu.be/rZ1e2ArhpaQ

    https://youtu.be/X3fCkT6sTIk

  • Nijinsky says:

    That’s a new style of singing opera, to sound like you have a hernia? At least Bartoli, she still sounded lovely with Bocelli.

  • Nijinsky says:

    Me, and so many other people (just look at all of the comments on youtube) really wish Anna Netrebko would stop trying to get something out of her voice it’s not meant for.

    Anyone that can hear clearly what her voice is built for can hear she’s a lyrical soprano, and she’s trying to turn into into heavy dramatic stuff.

    What she already did with Donizetti is amazing, and completely perfect, but to “move on” and start doing these “bigger” dramatic roles, just isn’t what her voice is for. There are other people whose voice is built for that.

    It speaks for the opera world, and the classical music world that someone straining their voice to such a degree, with the abandon and I-do-what-I-want escapism is exploited all over the place. There’s enough drama in lyric soprano roles, and she wouldn’t be over doing it, and it would be better for her emotional life, not to think straining her voice to such a degree is exploring them (emotions and her voice).

    All this started happening after she gave birth to her child, and there’s problems there too that doesn’t need, and might have been caused by, the strain.

    Of course one wants to get everything out of life one can, but one is missing it by not seeing what’s there for one, in the roles her voice fits into without strain. Without some great idea of indulgence behind it.

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