Total overrated!

The record industry needs sales, and since the young Russian Anna Netrebko came along just at the right time. Sure, it looks good, and her voice can be heard. But you exalt a new Maria Callas, I consider totally covered, apart from the fact that here are really "apples to oranges" comparison. While Maria Callas was a dramatic actress of unique Sing cutting, Anna Netrebko has a more lyrical and significantly lighter voice, which can be compared neither the color nor the timbre with the legendary predecessor to in any way.
In the present motley CD Anna Netrebko gives a comprehensive insight into its broad, much too broad in my opinion repertoire. Really succeeded, I think only one piece: Musettes waltz from Puccini's "La Bohème". Everything else is mediocre, no comparison to so prestigious, artistically mature singers like Tebaldi, Sutherland, Caballe, Scotto, de los Angeles, etc., to say nothing of Maria Callas all.
Netrebko's voice is in the heights significantly accelerated, the Legato true over long distances not vote acting is virtually nothing instead.
If you still televise the singer in a colorful rubber boat to the soundtrack of the moon song from Dvorak's "Rusalka", taken from the present CD, gliding through a narrow water channel sees what has nothing to do with the content of the work in the slightest, wonders the distraught listener whether the future of opera is at all still be saved. Such antics are attracting young people determined not to, and the serious music lovers will rather put off. But for that you can not do alone, and certainly not responsible first Anna Netrebko. Those who want to enjoy the wonderfully atmospheric Mondlied really undiminished, the reach to the stunning shots with Zinka Milanov (RCA), Lucia Popp (RCA) or the beautiful German version with Elisabeth Linder Meier (EMI).
Conclusion: Between claim and reality is a huge gap that Anna Netrebko can not fill. Positive you could say: She is still young and capable of learning, but it is feared that they, like so many other hopeful young artist, is very quickly burned by the international music industry mercilessly. This is sad, but so are, after all the times.