Anna Netrebko "Addio del passato" La Traviata

Mariinsky Theatre Chorus and Orchestra,
conducted by Valery Gergiev
St. Petersburg, Mariinsky Theatre, June 2003

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Music

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• Opera
• Verdi
• La
• Traviata
• Anna
• Netrebko

[Tdubsish]

Anna Netrebko is the GREATEST Violleta of all time!!!!

[ifmusicbe]

Wow, beautiful to listen to and beautiful to watch. The voice is round and opulent, and the performance is honest. Brava! 

[MrMaxofloCA]

Normaly i don't here that. But she is so great, i cant can not here it!

[operafan0anegnd]

Anna deeply moves the heart and soul! Tears flow! Superb! Brava!!!

Those not engulfed by the emotional intensity, not totally involved in the plot, have forgotten the purpose and intent of opera.

However knowledgable or brilliant, they reduce themselves from true lovers of opera to mere musical technicians.

Great performers move hearts and souls of the vast majority of their audience.

Sorry, nit-pickers, that you have destroyed your own capacity to enjoy music.

Do not spoil it for others!

[rawdonqueen]

Did someone say "inexpressive"? I was crying by the end of this rendition.

[rclarke6]

@operachef1 I see that you are the typical example of a doctoral graduate that learned nothing in college, except how to tell everyone how important he has become. Now as far as keeping my comments to myself, I see that you also don't believe in someone having an opinion that differs from yours.

[operachef1]

@rclarke6 unless you have a doctoral degree (plus a master's and artist's diploma) in opera performance, have sung all over the world and have many students currently singing all over the world, I'd keep your obtuse comments to yourself.

[rclarke6]

Operachef1 you should take the word Opera out of your name, because you don't know a thing about good Opera !!!

[joergsattler]

@nedirien

inasmuch as that Traviata is right at the top of my opera list along with l'elisr and puritani and in general the genre of romantic storytelling in opera , i find it equaly disturbing that these purists out there will always find something to criticize regardless as to who, where, when or what is being performed. My advice to ignore these dumb S O B's and just enjoy the performance for what it is. :) Dramatic storytelling

[lnakell1]

The comments in Italian and German declare that Netrebko is lacking in expressiveness. I think both comments are absurd. What I want to hear in opera is "music". Netrebko sings the right pitches consistently and maintains tonal focus throughout. That matters! Listen to Caballe, Tebaldi, Callas, Sutherland. None controls her timbres. All of them hit out of tune notes. All of them scoop into notes. All of them had ugly vibrato, used to "expand" their tone rather than as an expressive ornament.

[beckmesser28]

es ist immer wieder erschreckend, zu sehen, wie völlig ausdruckslos und emotionsfrei sie singt und spielt.

Nur eine schöne Stimme zu haben, reicht nicht aus. Sie macht beim Singen so ein dummes Gesicht, daß man sich fragt, warum sie so gehypt wird.

[111sparkle111]

she wants me. and she's got mad legato happnin