Anna Netrebko’s biggest pet peeve is people who snore. She abstains from garlic and onions while she has singing engagements. Homegirl inexplicably listens to Christina Aguilera (?!!), and likes to drink her vodka str8-up. And something tells me that Netrebko could kick Gheorghiu’s a$$ in a bar fight.
How do I know such personal things? Opera Chic caught the January 30, 2007 ABC Chanel's "Good Morning America" segment titled, "Introducing the New Face of Opera", an in-depth interview with Miss Superstar Anna Netrebko.
Any viewer who saw it was treated to five-minutes and four-seconds of Netrebko spazzing-out to GMA’s Claire Shipman, who incidentally spoke to the soprano like she was retarded…it was srsly painful. See, this is why I ♥ ♥ Netrebko. Aside from her stellar voice, she emotes like Britney Spears. Netrebko takes us into her Manhattan kitchen where she proceedes to get Claire drunk on vodka. She puts on an apron, and makes a batch of blini.
I uploaded the five-minute interview to YouTube (in two-part segments because I just don’t got skillz with video capture...yet YET). The audio is pretty bad because it never matches-up with the voices wtf ok ok sry sry fo'reals, but I don’t know if you would be able to “get” Anna’s jumbled whispers anyway. When someone else posts this to YouTube (at the proper compression, size, etc), I will gladly swap them out for something more legible.
Can I just share the beginning of the interview? It's priceless. Also, a banner keeps flashing that describes the story as, "The Madonna of Moscow: Russia's Opera Prima Donna." loalz. Scroll down for a partial transcript...after the embedded YouTube.
PART I
PART II
Vashe zdorov'ye! Here's the introduction transcript:
Puffy-hair anchor: When I say "Opera Singer", what image comes to mind? Is it this, like the nice Viking lady there? [puffy-hair guy shows a picture of a fat Wagnerian soprano OMG thats totally h0tt brilliant ha ha i totally get it]
Puffy-hair guy continues: Well, if that's what comes to mind, you're not alone there. But that old stereotype is getting a make-over, thanks to the woman who is the new face of opera: Anna Netrebko. She's got an Audrey-Hepburn-look, and a voice that can break glass, and sales records to prove it.
Claire comes on to say: You have to banish all thoughts of fat ladies and Viking helmets from your mind.” [Oh again with the running joke. Pretty witty, guys. Claire pronounces “I Puritani” as “EEE Pyyyyyuuur-eee-tani.” Close, but no.]
Claire to Netrebko: Your voice has been described as miraculous. Lustrous. Even “dark-gold-on-red-velvet”. [To which Netrebko raises an eyebrow, and tries to keep a str8 face.]
Netrebko: Wow. Where did you read all those things? ha ha ha.
Claire: When you listen to your own voice, do you hear that?
Netrebko: Not really. I'm listening to myself for pleasure. [that’s h0tt] Maybe when I will be old, and I will be without voice. And I’ll go…with a glass of vodka, I will cry, and go, “That was me so beautiful! I was singing!” But no, not now. It's mostly about the work.
My girl-crush on Netrebko just crushed harder.
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