Anna Netrebko, who recently celebrated her 50th birthday with her soprano, fascinates millions of people around the world. Not to mention that every performance of the opera diva fascinates with temperament and sensuality, passion and thirst for life.
The bar that the superstar constantly has to hold is extremely high. And how she manages to find a balance between family and the stage, personal and professional life, the outstanding singer demonstrates in the book “Taste of my life”, published by the Viennese publishing house Molden and became Netrebko’s literary debut.
When the path to the heart lies through the stomach
The path she has chosen for this is ingeniously simple, and it lies through her stomach. “The Taste of My Life” is a book of author’s recipes shared by the world’s best soprano. Each of the recipes is a short story that brings the reader closer to the artist not so much as a star, but as a cheerful and easy-going person, a charming woman, a loving mother and wife.
“Well, dear friends, happiness has come! The book is out. So far – in German. But very soon it will be translated into Russian. There are many recipes, photos. I hope you like it,” – said the singer to her subscribers and showed. them a colorfully decorated book in a video posted to her Instagram account.
Anna Netrebko does not hide that she loves delicious food and never goes on diets. “Gathering together at a lavishly set table means exchanging good positive energy. Although I love to eat in the first place,” the singer admits.
According to Netrebko, cooking for her is a highly creative process. She likes to surprise guests and family, loves the variety on the menu and is happy to find something for herself in the national cuisines of different countries, but always adds her own notes to the recipes borrowed from them.
The holiday will have to be postponed
Anna Netrebko’s new book will have to be postponed. She is forced to cancel a number of her speeches. On social media, the prima said that she has been suffering from unbearable pain in her right shoulder for many months, and that the doctor advised her to have an urgent operation, and then – to undergo a full course of physical rehabilitation.
The singer apologized to fans who hoped to meet her, and expressed hope that she will soon be able to return to active creative work. With her optimism and relentless temper, there is no doubt about it.
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“Mi chiamano…”
“My name is…” No, her name is not Mimi, as the heroine of Puccini’s famous opera “Bohemia”. Her name is Anna. In the early 2000s, the German press was full of pictures of the “Russian beauty” brilliantly performing the classical Italian repertoire.
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“Where are you from, lovely child?”
The version of “The Cinderella from Krasnodar” proposed by the singer’s PR was immediately adopted, which first washed the floors in the Mariinsky Theater, and then somehow immediately got on stage – and in the lead roles. Even if there are some mistakes in this story: it still works.
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Valery Gergiev: Thank you for Netrebko
There is no doubt that Valery Gergiev owns the laurels of the first mentor Anna Netrebko and the engine of her career at an early stage. This photo was taken in 2013 in St. Petersburg during a concert at the Mariinsky Theater.
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Breakthrough on the international stage
In 2002, Anna Netrebko’s name appeared on the pages of leading German newspapers in connection with the sensational debut of Donna Anna’s part in Mozart’s “Don Juan” – this “opera of operas”, at the “Festival of Festivals” in Salzburg. Conducted by the great Nikolaus Arnoncourt. Everyone who has watched Netrebko’s career closely knows that there is Anna before and after the meeting with maestro Arnoncourt.
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Netrebkomania
In the years that followed, genuine “nonsense” erupted in Europe. Ticket prices for performances with the participation of “la bella Anna” reach several thousand euros on the black market. Surpassing each other in epithets, German critics praise Netrebko’s incredible – “velvet” – voice, her acting talent and personal charm.
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Anna for everyone
Thousands and tens of thousands of people, who for one reason or another do not have access to expensive opera tickets, gather in the squares to watch broadcasts from Netrebko – for example, the opera “Manon” in Berlin in 2007.
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On the personal front
There is something to do with the “yellow press”: she tirelessly monitors the personal life of the singer. In particular, for her affair with Uruguayan singer (bass baritone) Erwin Schrott. In September 2008, little Thiago was born.
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(Non) opera passions
Even if love is eternal only in fairy tales: the Netrebko-Schrott couple entered the history of world opera. In this photo – as Don Juan and Donna Anna in Baden-Baden in 2013.
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Singer of national importance
Anna Netrebko has not escaped the attention of the Russian authorities. Awarding her the title of “People’s Artist” in 2008 is just one of the manifestations of official recognition. Netrebko does not do without key events – such as the opening of the Olympics in Sochi.
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Mutual recognition
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is one of Anna Netrebko’s admirers. It seems that this admiration is mutual.
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What was that?
Without knowing the ford, of course, it is better not to get into political water. So, perhaps, Anna Netrebko just wanted to help colleagues – artists of the Opera House in Donetsk. However, the photo in which the star posed in St. Petersburg in 2014 with the flag of the Donbass separatists near the odious politician Oleg Tsarev flew around all European media.
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Anna and Richard: a story of impossible love?
“Richard Wagner is my favorite composer,” Netrebko told the press at the Vienna Opera Ball in 2011. Since then, German critics and the public have been looking forward to Anna in key parts of Wagner’s repertoire. Alas, it did not go further than Elsa’s part in “Lohengrin”, performed in a test mode in Dresden. Netrebko made her debut in Bayreuth in 2019 ten days before the premiere.
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And also in the field of folk dances
It’s hard to believe, but sometimes you want “less Anna”. In particular, in the cases of her infamous dances on stage. It is said that Netrebko refuses to sing in friendly company, saying: “Come to the opera, listen there!”. Maybe, in that case, leave the dance numbers to the family circle?
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Peace and love
Since 2014, Anna Netrebko has found personal happiness, her chosen one is tenor Yusif Eivazov. It is possible to understand that spouses do not want to part for a long time. But the fact that in almost any contract with a diva should be provided and a role for her husband, makes theater directors sometimes grab not only the purse, but also the heart.
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The queen of a large repertoire
As a performer of key parts in the operas of Verdi, Puccini, Mozart and Tchaikovsky, Anna Netrebko is still unmatched. Small failures – such as by her standards an imperfect performance in the Tosca party at the Salzburg Festival in the summer of 2021 – do not cast a shadow over the glory of the star. At least for now.
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Everyone loves Anna!
In the circle of colleagues (pictured – with conductor Daniel Barenboim) Netrebko is loved and appreciated as a great singer and a kind, cheerful person. Shortly before her 50th birthday, Anna lost her father, but could not cancel the anniversary concert in Moscow. “You won’t turn away,” she was told. In a sense, this situation can be considered an allegory of the whole life of this opera diva.
Author: Anastasia Butsko