Anna Netrebko is love-bombed in Paris
OperaThe semi-sanctioned Russian soprano scored a major public triumph at the Bastille last night as Adriana Lecouvreur. There were standing ovations after two arias and again at the close.
Netrebko will sing once more on Thursday before yielding the role to Anna Pirozzi.
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photo: Sébastien Mathe/Opera national de Paris
Too bad that parody of an opera singer is not being granted the honor to bomb where bombs keep dropping.
And yet beautiful Anna Netrebko gets a standing ovations in every her performances. Yes, the Arts, Music is the cure to our soul’s and hearts.
But hatred is the reason of all conflicts.
Stop hate.
As against the hate campaign in this website.
But it’s the only place where you could observe such a vast amount of wise and knowledgeable people in comment section. They know everything about everything, they love the music more than any humankind in the world, they know how it should be done, they deserved the popularity, money and happiness, but they are too smart for it, because everything goes to these arrogant singers and conductors, who are parodies of a professionals in the field.
LOL–how true.
As long as she speaks, at least she won‘t off-key!
I have perfect pitch and I have never heard her sing off-key.
Have you ever heard Ms. Netrebko live? If so, I’d question your “perfect pitch”. (For me, about 50 or 60 times live over 22 years.) Fine a singer as she can be, she certainly has her moments…many.
If that is true, then whatever you have is NOT perfect pitch!
Korrigendum: As long as she speaks, she won‘t sing off-key!
I was there on Friday and she was absolutely superb.
Ah, would loved to have been there
I was there too. Purely beautiful singing.
I wish I could see the entire performance.
See the DVD of the same production in London with a way better cast!
My husband and I were there in Paris on Monday, and it was a triumph for Netrebko, plus the conductor (whom I have met) and the other singers were very good.
Hoping she will come back to the Met soon! They need her!
The Met has made it quite clear that they don’t need or want her and audiences and donors agree. Karma is real 🙂
Lower attendance and decreased revenue resulted from Peter Gelb’s decision to fire Anna Netrebko. Several of my friends and I decided not to renew our membership in the Met Opera Guild, which eventually closed along with the Opera News. The Met was ordered to pay Netrebko $200,000 by her union and another lawsuit continues in a New York court. I kept The Met on Demand because it offers hundreds of operas, traditional and modern, including several by Netrebko.
She continues to perform in Europe, Asia and South America for sold out audiences with excellent reviews.
Below Netrebko’s number of performances at the Met in the last ten years:
2014: 12
2015: 13
2016: 6
2017: 7
2018: 11
2019: 10
Pre-Covid the Met used to schedule about 230 performances a year. Conclusion, she has never been important to the Met, she was one of many performers who used to absolve a small number of performances there. All the claims about the Met losing revenue because she doesn’t sing there anymore is just idle talk put in circulation by her groupies, to which you belong. Stop this disinformation campaign! Netrebko’s notoriety isn’t based on her appearances as opera singer, it’s based on the fact that she used to be a presence in TV ads in the days TV still counted for something, which tells anyone who can do a bit of math how old she actually is. Her singing technique has never been secure and is now more problematic than ever, her sense of pitch disastrous, and as to the stylistic understanding of the roles she is singing, she never had any. But her pretty face and scantily clad body appealed to the masses back in the day, and she is still capitalizing on that hoping they won’t notice the difference.
Totally agree. Me too.
Why you say that you don’t know? We are waiting Netrebko! I’m from New York!
Absolutely. I miss her. Wish art trumped politics!
She sang wonderfully and was warmly applauded, but from where I was sitting in the stalls, there was no sign of a standing ovation.
Cancelling her was a crime against beauty.
Nah, we just don’t like people who support dictators. No crime here. ”Beauty” has always been a subjective opinion, though…
Does she really support Putin? I dont suppose her “support” for Putin is because she has family living in Russia.
Actually her parents are dead and her sister is married in the West (Denmark or so).
VEEEEERY well said!
The fact is, Anna is innocent. Your accusations are lies, slander and insane nonsense. She was never close to Putin, which Peter Gelb made up and you repeat. That’s why she sued for defamation. Have you forgotten how western leaders kissed Putin?
https://static.themoscowtimes.com/image/article_1360/63/7bf290afca4e49e4b9657452c3295b8e.jpg
Just as a friendly reminder….
What exactly is wrong with this photo in your opinion? Have you never seen Catalan flag in Barcelona?
was there a majority of russians in the public?
that s why opera houses in Italy hire her so often, first of all for the many russians living in Italy
Hello Just Asking, We saw Anna Netrebko last September in Verona (La Traviata) and Berlin (Macbeth). I heard a variety of languages but Russian only once (Berlin). At the Staatsoper Unter Den Linden a German man heard us speaking US English and asked us about the cost of real estate in Los Angeles where my daughter lives.Nothing political.
Ozempic Anna.