Here's a clip from last night's "Great Voices in Kremlin" Opera Gala from Moscow's Red Square. The high-profile event starred a mic'd-up Anna Netrebko ('tho the Russian singer showed that microphone who's who!), Paata Burchuladze, Olga Borodina Russian mezzo Julia Gertseva stepped-in for Borodina, and Segey Skorohodov with the Russian National Orchestra conducted by Mikhail Pletnev.
Billed as a charitable event, tickets started at $100 and went until 38,500.00 RUB, or, a cool 1,200.00 USD. Such a drenching downpour dampened the Moscow sky that the concert was delayed 40-minutes, while concert-goers reported a maddening scene of [barely] organized chaos.
The program included arias from Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, Prokofiev's War and Peace, Tchaikovsky's Iolanta, and Mikhail Glinka's Ruslan and Lyudmila.
Whoa. That was primal howl at the end.
Posted by: Iphigenie | September 08, 2009 at 01:09 AM
she doesn't look like she would fit into any of those wonderful gowns in that cheesy video. But I'll take the one she is wearing -- it's lovely and looks like it might fit me.
Posted by: Lou Ann D. | September 08, 2009 at 02:05 AM
She has lost some weight. He face looks thinner. She's mad and under postpartum hormonal imbalance?
Posted by: Constantine A. Papas | September 08, 2009 at 06:54 AM
She man handled that microphone. Now we really know who wears the pants in that relationship.
Posted by: Scottovoce | September 08, 2009 at 09:25 AM
It wasn't on Red Square but on the Cathedral square inside the Kremlin.
Posted by: Vera | September 08, 2009 at 10:32 AM
Note to mic: if you are not "between my t%ts", you go behind...
Posted by: filthy Rich | September 08, 2009 at 10:36 AM
She is singing so flat and under pitch now.
Posted by: Starda Vanyra | September 08, 2009 at 02:28 PM
I can't stand her.
Posted by: Rachel | September 08, 2009 at 06:42 PM
She sounded very flat in this bit.
I wouldn't normally comment under difficult outdoor, amplified situations but singing flat is something I have noticed from her since her comeback. I think she needs to do more technical work to get her support back or something, because she is singing consistently flat.
Posted by: Casual Opera Fan | September 08, 2009 at 09:48 PM
yeah, now she thinks she's anna nilsson-dimitrova "listen, listen how i blow you guys away, lets loose the mikes"
Posted by: josia14 | September 09, 2009 at 02:24 AM
I think she moved the mic because she doesn't want her slurred coloratura to be heard.
Posted by: roxane | September 09, 2009 at 05:23 PM
Her voice gets darker and more flat. Is that why they don't upload newer videos of Anna? The clip is too short.
Posted by: roxane | September 09, 2009 at 05:27 PM
Its her post-birth period, let's give her some months and then see.
But I still believe that she's one of the bests of these days. Why? I simply don't know.
Posted by: zurriuss | September 09, 2009 at 07:26 PM
Post-birth period? Come on... Tiago is - what? - 10, 11 months old. Netrebko had more than enough time (and resources) to get rid of the extra weight.
Posted by: Ida Lopes | September 10, 2009 at 12:38 AM
Not a very good day to sing, right?
Posted by: alejandra | September 10, 2009 at 12:52 AM
She's a wonderful sing who had a problem with the mic.
Her weight has changed.
Posted by: hkbj | September 22, 2009 at 05:36 PM