2008 Recap: It's Anna's Year to Shine as She Drops Her Fourth Solo DG Recording
Forget 2008 as the Chinese Year of the Female Earth Rat. Instead it's the Chinese Year of the Female Soprano Netrebko. Already 11 months into 2008, la Anna has won an award (or two), sang at a few VIP concerts, relaunched her website, filmed a movie, and even managed to pop out a baby boy with fiance Erwin Schrott. Whoever ain't widdit gotta move widdit!
Now La Anna is poised for her fourth solo Deutsche Grammophon release, and in celebration of the November 11, 2008 drop, DG has given her the royal treatment with a minisite [warning: embedded sound filez]. She's also boasting a whole ethereal butterfly themed photoshoot...methinks the Russian opera singer has been partying with the ex-Mottola Glitter star??
Titled "Souvenirs", Anna fans will be offered a standard version of the CD, or a super deluxe ~limited edition~ package for a little more $$$. The souped-up version includes, in addition to the CD, "a DVD of behind-the-scenes footage, interviews and musical excerpts; [a] beautiful booklet; three postcards and one poster of Netrebko."
Her new CD includes operetta works & melodies by Strauss, Grieg, Dvorák, and Rimsky-Korsakov, among others. Special guests include Polish tenor Piotr Beczala (for Richard Heuberger's Der Opernball "Im chambre séparée"), Elīna Garanča (for Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann Barcarolle), and wee little choirboy Andrew Swait (for Andrew Lloyd Webber's Requiem "Pie Jesu").
Out of all the tracks, we're looking forward to Anna's take on the traditional Jewish song "Schlof sche, mein Vögele", sung in Yiddish. omg this shayner maidel is gonna make us plotz in our tsimmes. \O_O\ hey /O_O/ ho \^_^/ wee!!!
[all images above courtesy of Deutsche Grammophon found here]
Morticia? Is that you?
Posted by: A Real Cad | October 30, 2008 at 06:08 AM
Aww can't wait ;)
Posted by: val | October 30, 2008 at 08:57 AM
Mary Lewis, super shiksa star of the Met in the 20s, recorded at least one number in Yiddish. If memory serves, Julie Andrews-- who, never was bat mitzvah--slaps on a metaphorical shaytl for a song in "Thoroughly Modern Milly." So let's not get our knickers twisted up in our phylactories because Anna takes a detour from Lincoln
Center rep into Rivington Street's. Of course, if the DVD includes
footage of her little pisher making the acquaintance of a moyl,
then I concede that that may be news.
Posted by: Miss Johnson From London | October 30, 2008 at 01:27 PM
I really really hate her eye makeup. It's way to yellow for, her she needs some contouring & her lips are to grey. Ick. (sorry i'm a makeup artist lol) But good for Anna. I'm not crazy about her but I like that she brings more people into Opera.
Posted by: Diva2themax | October 30, 2008 at 08:21 PM
That first picture doesn't even look like her! These are a little too airbrushed for my tastes. But I'll still buy the deluxe edition!
Posted by: melky p. | October 31, 2008 at 04:10 AM
Sopranska looks half-dead.
Posted by: ellie | November 03, 2008 at 06:51 PM
Sorry, not interested in that kind of droppings
Posted by: IP | November 05, 2008 at 10:50 PM