Chekhov's Mistress
What’s Not to Love?
by Bud Parr
Via ionarts, who says
“However, the repertoire she sings on her new album of Russian songs and arias is much better suited to her strengths, dramatic and slow lines, hushed singing, and swells on held notes. That she is singing in her native language only makes things better for her, and in the liner notes Netrebko makes a lot out of coming home to St. Petersburg to make this recording in the Mariinsky Theater with Valery Gergiev. (It has not gone unnoticed, however, that in the middle of the recording sessions for the Russian Album, in March 2006, Netrebko applied for and received Austrian citizenship.) Particularly beautiful tracks include the arioso from Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta (an opera I had the pleasure of hearing live last summer), the Rachmaninov songs, especially the Pushkin poem Ne poy, krasavica (“Oh, do not sing to me, fair maiden, / those songs from sorrowful Georgia”), and a thrilling Letter Scene from Eugene Onegin.”
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Amazon also has a promotional video for her Russian Album that’s pretty cool.
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