Anna Netrebko Live at the Metropolitan Opera – review

Netrebko/New York Met Chorus and Orchestra (DG)This series of extracts from archive and broadcast material of Anna Netrebko's performances at New York Met nicely summarises one of the most remarkable and meteoric operatic careers of recent years. The choice of material is Netrebko's own, but it isn't by any means self-congratulatory. She avoids big soprano solos, with the exception of the mad scenes from Lucia di Lammermoor and I Puritani, in favour of ensembles and duets, tacitly acknowledging...

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