Amata dalle tenebre

Anna Netrebko, Orchestra Del Teatro Alla Scala Di Milano, Riccardo Chailly

Released on 11/5/21 by Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
Main artists: Orchestra del Teatro della Scala di Milano Anna Netrebko Riccardo Chailly
Genre: Classical

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Who is this "lover of darkness" (Amata delle tenebre) in the title of Anna Netrebko's latest album? He is the evil character who causes much female distress, who composers and librettists have taken malicious pleasure in portraying in their works. In her essay L’Opéra ou la défaite des femmes published in 1979 (Éditions Grasset), Catherine Clément had already dedicated her fascinating essay to those women who were assassinated, abandoned, despised, but also exalted throughout the long history of the opera.

It is these heroines that Anna Netrebko has chosen for this album which, in the deluxe hard copy version, includes a film dedicated to the Russian diva. Eagerly anticipated for five years, this new recital is conducted by Riccardo Chailly at the head of the Orchestra of La Scala in Milan. Netrebko's exceptional voice shimmers with a thousand spells in its power and variety in these famous excerpts, onto which she imprints her own fiery temperament. It begins with Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur (« Poveri fiori ») and ends with la Mort d’Isolde (« Mild und leise ») consumed by love.

In between these two pieces, there is a feast of sublime arias from Dido and Aeneas (Purcell), The Queen of Spades (Tchaïkovsky) which she has recorded here for the first time, Ariadne's great aria from Ariadne auf Naxos (Strauss), Aida and Don Carlo (Verdi), Tannhäuser and Lohengrin (Wagner), and Puccini's Madama Butterfly and Manon Lescaut. Nothing but beautiful singing, nothing but pleasure thanks to a voice that, over time, continues to blossom in its lower register and, what is more, is lovingly supported by the Milanese musicians. © François Hudry/Qobuz

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Amata dalle tenebre

Anna Netrebko

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Adriana Lecouvreur (Francesco Cilèa)

Poveri fiori

Anna Netrebko

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Francesco Cilea, Composer - Riccardo Chailly, Conductor, MainArtist - Anna Netrebko, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Orchestra Del Teatro Alla Scala Di Milano, Orchestra, MainArtist - Arturo Colautti, Author - Claudio Speranzini, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Rainer Maillard, Producer - Claudio Zappi, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Antonio Martino, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Enrico Piazza, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Alessandro Marsico, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Flavio Notarfrancesco, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel