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| Anna Netrebko |
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"Russians always need a little sh*t in our lives. If everything is good and we seem completely happy, then we become suspicious of that."
--Anna Netrebko
| Date of Birth: September 18, 1971 |
| Birthplace: Krasnodar, a southern Russian villag |
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| Anna Netrebko made her first breakthrough in 1995, at the San Francisco Opera, and since then she's been on fire. With several prizes under her belt and a recording contract with Deutsche Grammophon, she's booked four years in advance and handpicks all her roles. |
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| She's the Russian Madonna of the opera world. With her crisp voice, dark and icy like her Russian background, she has done every major opera in every major opera house with every major conductor. She's so hot, she has even made opera music videos. And did we mention she's Russian? |
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Anna Netrebko was born on September 18, 1971, in Krasnodar, a southern Russian city. It is said she was discovered, Cinderella style, by the head of the Kirov Opera, Valery Gergiev, while cleaning the floors of St. Petersburg's Mariinsky Theater. Not quite.
Anna made local headlines when she won a singing prize in Moscow in 1993, and took part in a gala concert in the Bolshoi Theater. She originally wanted to be an actress, but her voice teachers told her she'd have a better shot at singing.
So Anna studied at the St. Petersburg Conservatory for many years, and upon completing her schooling, she got a job cleaning at the theater. But she actually auditioned for a role in an opera, and Gergiev was astounded that his cute janitor could sing like an angel.
Gergiev became her mentor, and took her across Russia and Europe doing the full national repertoire. Her first major role was that of Susanna in Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro. But it was as Lyudmila in Glinka's Ruslan and Lyudmila that her name became known. Her performance of the opera in San Francisco -- at the tender age of 23 -- brought down the house. She was a star.
In 1996, Netrebko won another prize, the International Rimsky-Korsakov Vocal Competition in St. Petersburg. That year her performance with the Rotterdam Philharmonic was broadcast by the BBC. |
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© Hans Gutknecht LADN
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