Netrebko’s Debut album!
On occasion a fine debut album from 2003 deserves to be mentioned again:
Anna Netrebko’s debut CD shows us a spectrum of vocal styles and characters. This excellent lyric soprano presents Opera people such as Donna Anna as flesh-and-blood characters in real situations, as Mozart wanted them to be.
Netrebko shows us the interesting aspects not just in Gounod’s “Jewel Song” but particularly in her stunning, passionately sung and beautifully phrased Manon. The Russian repertoire is not included here, probably intentionally. However, Netrebko’s “Song to the Moon” from Dvorak’s Rusalka shows us the mood of this selection with excellent results.
Tracks on this CD:
1. Idomeneo, rè di Creta, opera, K. 366 Act 1. Scene 1. Recitative and No. 1 Aria. Quando avran fine omai…Padre, germani, addio!
Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performed by Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
with Anna Netrebko, David Aronson
2. Don Giovanni, opera, K. 527 Act 2. Scene 12. No. 23. Accompanied Recitative and Rondo. Crudele? – Ah no, mio bene! Non mi dir
Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performed by Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
3. Benvenuto Cellini, opera, H. 76a, Op. 23 Act 1. Tableau 1. Scene 2. Recitative and Aria. Les belles fleurs!…Quand j’aurai votre âge
Composed by Hector Berlioz
Performed by Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
4. Manon, comic opera in 5 acts Act 3. Scene 1. No. 10. Recitative and Gavotte. Suis-je gentille ainsi?…Je marche sur tous les chemins…Obéissons, quand leur voix
Composed by Jules Massenet
Performed by Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
5. Lucia di Lammermoor, opera Part 1. No. 3. Scene and Cavatina. Ancor non giunse!…Regnava nel silenzio
Composed by Gaetano Donizetti
Performed by Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
6. La sonnambula, opera Act 1. Scene 1. No. 2. Recitative and Cavatina. Care compagne…Come per me sereno
Composed by Vincenzo Bellini
Performed by Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
7. Faust, opera Act 3. No. 14. Recitative and Chanson. Les grands seigneurs…Ah! je ris de me voir (Jewel Song)
Composed by Charles Gounod
Performed by Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
8. Rusalka, opera, B. 203 (Op. 114) Act 1. Mesícku na nebi hlubokém (Song to the Moon)
Composed by Antonin Dvorak
Performed by Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
9. La Bohème, opera Act 2. Quando men vo (Musetta’s Waltz)
Composed by Giacomo Puccini
Performed by Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Here is a Netrebko video, where she is singing “Alfredo, di questo core” from La Traviata
Tags: Anna Netrebko, Opera, Gounod, Dvorak, Don Giovanni, Lucia, La Boheme