ABOUT A GALA EVENING WITH ANNA NETREBKO:
Tuesday, February 22, 2011 - The Vilar Performing Arts Center is honored to present A Gala Evening with Anna Netrebko. Our Gala Evening with Renee Fleming last season was an overwhelming success, and it is our great pleasure to continue this tradition with another exhilarating performance by “one of the opera world’s hottest female stars” (Time Magazine.)
Ms. Netrebko is no longer just the darling of the opera world: she is enchanting audiences around the globe while continuing to cultivate the respect and admiration of opera’s most devoted and demanding fans. Her beautiful, dark, and distinctive voice, together with her elegant and alluring stage presence, have prompted critics to hail the Russian soprano as “Audrey Hepburn with a voice,” and “a singer who simply has it all: a voice of astounding purity, precision, and scope, extensive dynamic and tonal range, imagination, insight, and wit – all combined with a dazzling charisma that makes it all but impossible to look away when she is performing.”
Since her triumphant Salzburg Festival debut in 2002 as Donna Anna in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Ms. Netrebko has gone on to appear with nearly all of the world’s great opera companies, including the Metropolitan Opera, the San Francisco Opera, London’s Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Vienna State Opera, the Paris Opera, the Zurich Opera, the Berlin State Opera, and Munich’s Bavarian State Opera. She also frequently returns to the Kirov Opera at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg to collaborate with her longtime mentor, conductor Valery Gergiev.
“The reigning new diva of the 21st century” - Associated Press
“A genuine superstar” - Musical America
“Her beautiful, dark, and distinctive voice, together with her elegant and alluring stage presence, have prompted critics to hail the Russian soprano as the “Audrey Hepburn with a voice” and “a singer who simply has it all: a voice of astounding purity, precision, and scope, extensive dynamic and tonal range, imagination, insight, and wit – all combined with a dazzling charisma that makes it all but impossible to look away when she is performing” - San Francisco Chronicle
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