Anna Netrebko....russian diva

[wetnose]

Holy, even if you didn't like opera, you gotta admit she's amazing!!

This is the piece that was played in the Shawshank Redemption...when Andy got into the PA system.

"Red: [narrating] I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about. Truth is, I don't want to know. Some things are best left unsaid. I'd like to think they were singing about something so beautiful, it can't be expressed in words, and makes your heart ache because of it. I tell you, those voices soared higher and farther than anybody in a gray place dares to dream. It was like some beautiful bird flapped into our drab little cage and made those walls dissolve away, and for the briefest of moments, every last man in Shawshank felt free. "

 

[wetnose]

Another one

 

[ROGER O. THORNHILL]

Oh Man, don't get me started, for Puccini's sake!

Love Netrebko! Love her, Love Her, Love Her!! Saw her at The Met in Romeo & Juliet..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OIExoUb8jk

...The Stunning Angela Gheorghiu is no slouch either!

 

[Mia.Colpa]

I wonder if they sing the high notes just as they are reaching orgasm? That would be a real treat.

 

[Aardvark154]

Another one

The clip from La Boheme is from a performance with the Saint-Petersburg Philharmonia. Netrebko is a graduate of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, where Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Shostakovich were professors. She made her operatic debut across the street at the Mariinsky Theatre.

 

[landscaper]

Actually the producer is from Warner Brothers, that is not actually the singer its a model with a casset recorder in the back of its head......................................................

 

[scouser1]

just checked the schedule, she is at the Met in New York around Xmas time, I just planned my holidays