Anna Netrebko - Caro Nome - Rigoletto

Definitely not the best, but if you like it...
Aria of Gilda from Rigoletto

Giuseppe Verdi
Rigoletto
Gilda: Anna Netrebko, soprano (?)
Rigoletto - Carlo Guelfi
Il Duca di Mantova - Rolando Villazón

Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra
Conductor - Asher Fish
December 17, 2005

Category:

Music

Tags:

• anna
• netrebko
• rigoletto
• gilda
• caro
• nome
• verdi

[eradesso]

Thanks dear Leo, I've been waiting to hear this for a while. And I already knew what to expect.

Obviously her groupies will say she's an amazing Gilda.

I don't even need to comment much here. If one isn't deaf it's easy to understand what a terrible choice to sing this was.

And seriously, diction is perhaps the least worrying problem here.

[leoperarm]

LOL

none of them has access to the video^^ just take a look at the ratings XD

[Pyrare1]

leoperarm, that's because they watch Manon`s daily bed scene...There isn't much time left to find other Netrebko videos...XD

[leoperarm]

Yeah... that scene has made a common woman become 'LA DIVINA' LOL!

[AulendilElessar]

I think, as most have said, that her problem is her repertoire. Having a big voice is not a problem to sing Gilda; Big-voiced sopranos have sung it (Callas, Moser, Sutherland). The problems here is the agility. i think she should sing Tosca, Mimi, Manon Lescaut: lyric parts; there she would shine.

[REBECCAtheSOPRANO]

@CaptFitzbattleaxe LOL! I know, right? Just cause you're pretty doesn't mean you should sing every aria there is.

[FloriaTosca90]

Non capisco, perché perdere il tempo a intestardirsi su ruoli che non le appartengono e basta?

[sparviero411]

anna netrebko is a beautiful woman and marvelous singer

[husiatyn]

Wow! What a desecration of the aria! Netrebko is living proof that ample T&A will get you places, even in the world of opera. Why oh why doesn't she stay out of a repertoire that she has proven over and over again to be incapable of singing? As far as capable singers of coloratura are concerned, have a listen to Roberta Peter's live 1967 Met version of this aria which has recently appeared here. Marvelous!

[ferrykalos]

Dall'applauso fatto dal pubblico quando l'aria deve ancora finire e in un momento inopportuno, si capisce che si tratta di un pubblico che nemmeno conosce quest'aria il che giustifica altresì il fatto che questa esecuzione venga applaudita. My opinion.

[tombwomb]

frankly i think those who think it was all perfect singing in the golden age get it wrong. they , for a start didnt have endless recordings to mull over and pull to pieces...the odd great singer was few and far between...even as it is now.

[HeidelbergSoprano]

@CaptFitzbattleaxe She has actually done that role very early in her career - Riga Independent Opera Avangarda Akadēmija, Riga, June 1994 :)

[KathrynARyder]

@AulendilElessar - I completely agree with you.

[TheVaughan5]

@piax00 You are so right - 30/40 years ago sopranos of this calibre would be considered also rans mostly engaged by minor houses or used as stand ins, how standards have been lowered!

[KathrynARyder]

@MrLupo23 - because Lucia is beyond her capabilities and at age forty she does not have a high Eflat any longer.

[REBECCAtheSOPRANO]

@CaptFitzbattleaxe ...................