Commercially successful, but still top class

Many artists who have climbed an absolute leading position in salaries, fame or recognition worldwide are often re-written by the respective critics and the feature section "down". It shall also be issued Anna Netrebko. But gathered here range very well-known and less well-known arias proves that her voice is but of singular beauty and emotion. Both the redeemed and the lyrical passages Grasping it can bring to the tones. Accurate, sensitive, with a precise tempo and phrasing else. If at some pieces the tonal balance between Netrebko's voice and the orchestra would have been better off controlled, and the fifth star would have been possible. Nevertheless: Wonderful, touching, sinking!