This new recording titled “Romanza: Anna Netrebko” features a whole lot of music performed by Ms. Netrebko and her husband, Tenor Yusuf Eyvnzov. The selections are as follows:
Bellini:
Eccomi in lieta vesta…Oh! quante volte (from I Capuleti e I Montecchi)
Dvorak:
Mesícku na nebi hlubokém ‘Song to the Moon’ (from Rusalka)
Songs My Mother Taught Me, Op. 55 No. 4
Grieg:
Peer Gynt: Solveig’s Song
Kalman:
Heia, in den Bergen from Die Csárdásfürstin
Krutoy:
Forse non fu
Cantami
Mi fa male
Credo
L’amour Russe
Gioia
Il nastro blu
La fantasia
Odna Lyubov
Ricomincero
Tango mio
Pioggia d’aprile
Se tu almeno fossi qui
Seguire me
Unico
L’istante prima dell’amore
Angels pass away
Musica con noi
Session Orchestra London, Ben Foster
Lehár:
Meine Lippen sie Kussen so heiss (from Giuditta)
Mozart:
La ci darem la mano (from Don Giovanni)
Offenbach:
Barcarolle (from Les Contes d’Hoffmann )
Puccini:
O mio babbino caro (from Gianni Schicchi)
Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Claudio Abbado
Si, mi chiamano Mimi (from La Bohème)
Un bel di vedremo (from Madama Butterfly)
Vissi d’arte (from Tosca)
Rachmaninov:
How fair this spot, Op. 21 No. 7
Strauss, R:
Wiegenlied, Op. 41 No. 1
Tchaikovsky:
Octgo eto prezde ne znala ni toski ya (from Iolanta)
Verdi:
Follie! Follie! Delirio vano è questo…Sempre libera (from La traviata)
Saimir Pirgu (tenor)
Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Claudio Abbado
Oh ben s’addice questo torbido cielo … Sempre all’alba ed alla sera (from Giovanna d’Arco)
All performed by Anna Netrebko (soprano), and Yusif Eyvazov (tenor).
Anna Netrebko and her husband, tenor Yusif Eyvazov, released a new duet album of love songs, Romanza, on September 1, 2017. Eighteen original romantic love songs were written and composed specially for the couple by Russian producer Igor Krutoy.
Romanza is not only Anna Netrebko’s first duet album with husband Yusif, but also her first foray out of the realm of traditional core repertoire. Producer Igor Krutoy wrote all 18 album tracks with Anna and Yusif in mind. Many years of working together closely and a one of a kind friendship that stems from his collaboration with Anna and Yusif allowed Igor to write love songs that not only perfectly match their voices, but also are an homage to love in general.
Anna met her husband, tenor Yusif Eyvazov, when they starred together in Manon Lescaut at the Rome Opera in March 2014. Since their wedding in December 2015, the couple has appeared in concert and on the opera stage together worldwide. She and Yusif open La Scala’s season on December 7, 2017 in Andrea Chénier; it will be her role debut as Maddalena.
Here are Ms. Neterebko and her husband in an extended trailer from this recording:
