A very promising debut!

The young Russian Anna Netrebko was discovered and promoted in St. Petersburg Valery Gergiev. Since then, she has presented and interpreted many roles on stage. It succeeds Anna Netrebko by their naturalness and her expressive playing convince. It identifies very strongly with their roles, so that the respective character seemingly always gets a lot from her own. It impresses with its grand and dark colored soprano. You can do with their distinctive and appealing voice timbre wonderful things, they can lure, caress, flatter and indulge. Their intonation is flawless, the phrasing is fluid and beguiling. The heights have tremendous ease, coupled with strong emotional outbursts, so that each of their interpretations to an experience. However, not all that glitters is gold: Many high notes do not fall really easily, in more agitated passages they hooked ever again. But it can and will still work and eliminate the remaining weaknesses.
With her debut recital she presented a diverse mix of arias, ranging from Mozart to Puccini. In most works on this CD Netrebko can quite convince and fallen. However occur in one or other game on their weaknesses. Your Manon can not be as flirtatious as once from singing about the reasons of Victoria de los Angeles, and because this coquetry unconvinced, also lacks the dimension of boiled shrewdness. The problems are evident on at "Quand votre j'aurai age" of Berlioz, and also with "Regnava nel Silenzio" from Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, the listener can not be satisfied. Here some things are missing to the fantastic interpretations of this role, such as Joan Sutherland and Maria Callas.
The Vienna Philharmonic, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda support the young soprano fabulous and round the good overall impression.
Anna Netrebko has the potential of a diamond in the rough. If this potential is handled properly, there is little doubt that this CD will be many more will follow and Netrebko will ascend to a new star in the operatic firmament.