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Opera jet-setters Anna Netrebko and Erwin Schrott arrived for the opening night of Salzburger Festspiele in a convertible car that matched Erwin's new haircolor. Too rock'n'roll for a limo!
UPDATE: We just came across a few photos of the duo earlier this month at a fashion show in Berlin. That's what we're talking about.
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After the post you wrote the other day about the article where they were gushing about each other, this new Anna and Erwin thing is confusing me! She looks the best she's looked in years, however. Erwin's hair isn't working for me. Or for him.
Posted by: Tristam | July 27, 2011 at 11:30 PM
Gosh! Netrebko's feet are so gorgeous!!!
Posted by: Bill Philin-Ploplis | July 27, 2011 at 11:32 PM
Looks like she graduated purses from Escada to Chanel.
Posted by: Rose | July 27, 2011 at 11:35 PM
I love Anna, especially her collaborations with Dmitry Hvorostovsky. She's of course very beautiful and hard working and sets a great example for young singers starting out.
Posted by: Vic @ How To Sing Opera | July 28, 2011 at 12:08 AM
Do you think this is spectacular? HOW TACKY!
Posted by: Nessun dorma | July 28, 2011 at 01:12 AM
Operatic HOLLYWOOD.
Posted by: Zurriuss | July 28, 2011 at 06:35 AM
"opera jet-setters" who else in this lot? interesting to list them...what about the outsiders? Perhaps they set 'a better' example for young opera trainees;))
Posted by: yvette | July 28, 2011 at 08:35 AM
They look like peasants dressed up. In an interview she said she dislikes all that bustle...
Then she is concerned about the high prices for her tickets... but she likes the money.
In german one says: sie haben die Intelligenz nicht mit Löffeln gefressen.
Posted by: richie | July 28, 2011 at 08:39 AM
Well it seems to me that you lot only ever comment on how these two look, and never ever say a word on their singing. Maybe you're too obsessed with them as people, you forget they're singers. Anyone went to last night Figaro in Salzburg? I was there and Schrott was divine.
Posted by: R S | July 28, 2011 at 10:23 AM
Why don't they spend time studying instead of making fools of themselves.
"Tacky" is too nice a word for this couple.
Posted by: nick | July 28, 2011 at 10:51 AM
Surely I'm not the only person to recognise the similarity between Anna Netrebko and UK Big Brother Tranny winner Nadia Almada?
Posted by: Crystal d'Canter | July 28, 2011 at 11:01 AM
Anna!
You are a pretty girl! Come bunga bunga with me!
Silvio
PS Leave Erwin at home.
Posted by: Rose-Mary Hyslop | July 28, 2011 at 11:17 AM
Anna really needs to rethink that hair: it makes her look like she has no neck. Schrott needs to beef up his body--specially da pecs--cuz he looks skinny next to the volumptuous AN. AN's dress really doesn't fit right for her figure. OK. I just wanna help these two cuties get "it" right if they are gonna stomp the red carpet.
Posted by: Bill Philin-Ploplis | July 28, 2011 at 01:03 PM
OK. Maybe it is just the cut of that suit--which looks 5 sizes too large for Schrott--that makes his physique look like that of a teen twink rather than that of a silver-haired hunka-hunka burning love.
Posted by: Bill Philin-Ploplis | July 28, 2011 at 01:06 PM
Erwin's new do is for an upcoming production of Don Giovanni, or so he said in an interview.
Posted by: Donna Anna | July 28, 2011 at 03:09 PM
"Ahhh pour ce soir ...je suis Titania ;) ".... any way Ania looks great in upper pictures (Salzburg)... as to her husband - in my humble opinion he should change all his deckings immediately and cardinally ....
Posted by: alexander | July 28, 2011 at 03:58 PM
less glamour than a road beff
Posted by: Martin | July 28, 2011 at 06:05 PM
Anne looks tremendous at nearly 40.
We should all be so lucky.
Posted by: puck swami | July 28, 2011 at 06:31 PM
Circus Schrott/Netrebko. And believe me both voices are by far overestimated.
Posted by: Franco | July 28, 2011 at 06:37 PM
Did they abandon the car and leave it for the papz?
Posted by: FC | July 28, 2011 at 07:40 PM
that long gown is amazing and those stilettos are just so pretty ! anyone know who she is wearing ?
Posted by: Anna Yasmin | July 29, 2011 at 02:45 PM
The short dress she wears looks far too tight and short on her and it hardly covers her bosom which to my mind makes her look slightly vulgar, i.e. the opposite of what one might expect a serious singer to look
like. Her hair also looks slightly unkempt.
Is it just me or does she look decidedly plump?
Posted by: Liane | July 29, 2011 at 11:30 PM
What's the delio with the "Hammer" pants? They both need a stylist....PRONTO!!!
Posted by: flipstinger | July 30, 2011 at 07:36 AM
Vulgarity pure
Posted by: Gianni | July 30, 2011 at 12:44 PM
Obscene look for both of them: Anna looks like a whale walking on two sticks (her legs) and Erwin looks like a caw has licked his hair.
This is what they are obliged to do to get money because singing is now their secondo profession! Booooh!
Posted by: MisterPapageno | July 30, 2011 at 01:56 PM
Actually the voices are not overestimated. Schrott is in fact the best active Figaro and (possibly) Leporello and Don G and Trebsky, while very hyped, has a rich beautiful voice and is a very dynamic performer. We're listening to Schrott's Figaro in Salzburg now and find it excellent.
Now the Berlin outfit is absolutely loathsome for him and we don't especially like either of hers although the Berlin one is the more atrocious and, notably, neither is especially flattering. We repeat she does not carry the extra weight well and would do well to loose it but even in her current hefty state she could dress in a manner that would set her of to better advantage.
Now, we believe we might have read in OC's post concerning their interview that he likes her better that way. While we don't dispute that he genuinely loves her (although he must, of necessity enjoy the lifestyle that comes with the girl), we find his judgement in this respect deficient.
Posted by: Furst | July 30, 2011 at 10:05 PM
Anna's weight is fine, but what is not fine is her taste related to clothes.
She wore a very beautiful dress for the Salzburg festival but the colour of her purse was irrelevant to the colour of the dress and it also looked cheap for such a gown. She should have kept it at her house to hold it when she goes out to buy vegetables at the open-air markets of Vienna. For such a dress only a small luxurious hand bag can match.
As for the dress in Munich it fitted a teenager not a 40 year old woman.
Anna has a beautiful figure but she needs a stylist urgently.
Otherwise she will always look kitschy the way some wealthy peasants do.
Posted by: Niki | July 31, 2011 at 01:18 PM
che coatti.
Posted by: francesco | July 31, 2011 at 09:37 PM
@Niki--You're right about the purse. It is such an important accessory, and that one looked indescribably cheap. She is a beautifully voluptuous woman.
Posted by: Bill Philin-Ploplis | August 01, 2011 at 01:31 AM
@NIKKI
Well, don't know if her weight is fine or not. The point isn't that
she's unusually fat, rather it is, as it says above, that "she doesn't carry it well". By contrast Renee Fleming - at about the same age - was probably (almost certainly) heavier than Trebs is now but was more attractive than at present (though she's perfectly spectacular even now).
In any case, while we hold that she would do better to loose weight she is plenty attractive as is and has a perfectly fine figure by
any reasonable standard but she could certainly dress in a way that is more flattering and, as you suggest, more elegant.
Posted by: Furst | August 01, 2011 at 03:45 AM
i would love to be her stylist !!
Posted by: Anna Yasmin | August 01, 2011 at 05:21 AM
ok, what they wear etc. is none of our business.
It's not my taste at all but it's their freedom.
They will change again!
But have they been not( however their manager(s) or Salzburg fest???) mixing up the music and business too much?
It's what I against!
An excellent music critic, Ljubisa Tosic --DER STADARD, 29TH jULY 2011-- said the point quite sharply!
--Kunst und Geschäft mixen-- sham! Noncy
Posted by: noncy cowans | August 01, 2011 at 11:38 AM
@Noncy--I love your passionate comments, but don't forget that this blog is called OperaChic--combo of opera and fashion. So a fashionista criticism is not inappropriate. (Anyway, they are displaying themselves for popular consumption, and the consumer is naturally going to say what "tastes" good or bad. I'm sure we all love them and want them to look their best.)
Posted by: Bill Philin-Ploplis | August 01, 2011 at 11:23 PM
@Bill ok ,ok! I understand what you mean as well! you are a nice guy too. I mean that!
It's also important to enjoy comments on OC.
I am a wicked witch from...., be patient with me!
Any way ,thank you Bill to communicate with me!
Good night!
Noncy
Posted by: noncy cowans | August 02, 2011 at 01:09 AM
Who needs all that 'fashion-crap'?
Posted by: Richie | August 02, 2011 at 12:43 PM
Dear Bill , I wrote a comment after --Oscar Wilde--
3rd August OC.
If you wouldn't mind to read it , I am grateful! Thanks! Noncy
Posted by: noncy cowans | August 04, 2011 at 03:08 PM
Brava, Noncy!!!
Posted by: Bill Philin-Ploplis | August 04, 2011 at 11:30 PM
Rather O/T, but then again for me completely ON topic, as I really don't care about much beyond their singing. Have just listened to a few mp3 tapes from their Wien concert with Kaufmann. The reverb was set to 11... I don't know if this was something that the person who recorded them added afterward, or if this was reflective of the actual amplification ambiance for the hall. (I am not in any way protesting amplification here; this is the type of concert and venue for which it is completely appropriate and necessary.)
If Anna and Co used this level of reverb for their performance, however, I am completely speechless. Why would they need to do this?
The acoustic is completely bizarre if nothing else. But, it clearly smooths the edges around the singing. (The equivalent of the rest of us singing in our showers, basically.)
I'd love to know what the actual venue acoustic sounded like in Wien. If anyone finds this post and can shed some light on this, I'd be interested. Perhaps the fan sharing the tapes really did do his or her own acoustical adjustments?
I know they will be releasing a CD from this series, and again if this extreme reverb shows up there I will be completely and utterly amazed. Nothing will surprise me anymore. Crazy.
It's possible one of the German language reviews made mention of this, but my German isn't good enough to be sure about it. I think they said something about it being difficult to do sound levels which would serve all three singers equally well, since their voices are quite different. So maybe they did add this massively echo-y effect, after all.
Posted by: Lu | August 08, 2011 at 06:21 AM
Just re-listened. It's the mics. It's to make their voices sound bigger (all 3 of them).
Sad, and yet really just a joke.
Posted by: Lu | August 08, 2011 at 06:28 AM