Anna Netrebko & Rolando Villazon: Duets
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Composer: Georges BizetComposer: Gaetano Donizetti
Composer: Charles Gounod
Composer: Jules Massenet
Composer: Giacomo Puccini
Composer: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky
Composer: Federico Moreno Torroba
Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
Conductor: Nicola Luisotti
Performer: Nicola Luisotti
Performer: Nadine Weissmann
Orchestra: Dresden Staatskapelle
Performer: Anna Netrebko
Performer: Rolando Villaz?n
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-09-11
Music Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Soundtracks:
- Act 1. Duet: "O soave fanciulla"
- Part 1. No 4. Scene and Duet: "Lucia perdona" - "Sulla tomba che rinserra"
- Act 1. No. 5. Scene and Duet:"Giovanna, ho dei rimorsi" - "? il sol dell'anima"
- Act 4. Scene 1. No. 14. Duet: "Va! je t'ai pardonn?" - "Nuit d'hym?n?e!"
- Act 2. No. 8. Chanson: "De mon amie!" - No. 9 Duet (Le?la/Nadir): "Le?la!" / "Dieu puissant, le voi
- Act 3. Scene 2. Duet: "Toi! Vous!" / Oui, c'est moi!" - "N'est-ce plus ma main"
- No. 7. Duet: "Tvoyo molcan'ye neponyatno"
- Act 3. No. 13. Duet: "?C?llate, coraz?n!"
Music reviews of Anna Netrebko & Rolando Villazon: Duets
Music Review: Don't Miss This!!
Rating: 5 Stars
Anna Netrebko and Rolando Villazon are today's operatic royalty and hot [stage] couple. The attention is certainly deserved; they are MAGIC. Tragedy, comedy...Perfect.
This selection of duets is a great opportunity to see what all the fuss is about...my own favorites were the cut from La Boheme, the fountain scene from "Lucia", and the duet from "Romeo et Juliette" [shades of Sayao and Bjorling]. The Rigoletto, not as good...Anna's voice doesn't quite fit Gilda.
Opera had had several legendary pairings over the years...Villazon and Anna rank with the VERY best. This record has my HIGHEST recommendation.
Description of Anna Netrebko & Rolando Villazon: Duets
Famed opera singers Anna Netrebko and Rolando Villaz?n collaborate again for their much anticipated Duets album. Already a platinum-seller internationally, this album is a collection of their favorite pieces from the world's most celebrated operas including La Boh?me and Rom?o et Juliette. As a gift to one another, Anna and Rolando also sing in each other's native language with duets from Luisa Fernanda and Iolanta. This release coincides with the pair's engagement at New York's Metropolitan Opera in Gounod's Rom?o et Juliette from September-December, 2007 (see dates below). Netrebko and Villaz?n established themselves as the new operatic dream team when they sang in the Salzburg Festival production of Verdi's La Traviata in 2005 (their interpretations are preserved on Deutsche Grammophon CD and DVD). Since then, they have conquered the world's stages in Gounod's Rom?o et Juliette in Los Angeles, and Verdi's Rigoletto at New York's Metropolitan Opera (conducted by Pl?cido Domingo).Rolando Villazon and Anna Netrebko, opera's "golden couple" (or is it "dream team?") have just released their first CD of duets. In the duet that closes the first act of Boh?me, both singers are in rapturous voice, their phrasing sensitive and sincere. The Lucia-Edgardo duet is passionate and tender by turns, with Villazon particularly good--he takes his solo softly and in a long breath. The Duke and Gilda are roles made for them: She sounds sweet and vulnerable and he sounds like he believes what he's singing at the moment, and their final high D flat together is a dazzler. A hypnotic Rom?o et Juliette duet follows, with gentle singing from both, and they make the most of Leila and Nadir's scene from The Pearl Fishers, turning in a languorous, smooth performance. The big duet from the third act of Manon finds Netrebko at her most seductive and a duet from Iolanta, probably the most lyrical tenor-soprano moment in Russian opera, is a nice rarity, with Villazon very at home in the Russian idiom and the pair soaring to great emotional heights. A delicious number from Torroba's Zarzuela Luisa Fernando ends the CD on a soft, tender note. Netrebko's diction remains unfortunate and while singing with a partner whose diction is as clean and clear as Villazon's, it becomes more noticeable. But there's precious little to complain about here--it's a true pleasure to hear singing and communicating of this caliber. --Robert Levine
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