Anchor ads are not supported on this page.

4S Ranch Allied Gardens Alpine Baja Balboa Park Bankers Hill Barrio Logan Bay Ho Bay Park Black Mountain Ranch Blossom Valley Bonita Bonsall Borrego Springs Boulevard Campo Cardiff-by-the-Sea Carlsbad Carmel Mountain Carmel Valley Chollas View Chula Vista City College City Heights Clairemont College Area Coronado CSU San Marcos Cuyamaca College Del Cerro Del Mar Descanso Downtown San Diego Eastlake East Village El Cajon Emerald Hills Encanto Encinitas Escondido Fallbrook Fletcher Hills Golden Hill Grant Hill Grantville Grossmont College Guatay Harbor Island Hillcrest Imperial Beach Imperial Valley Jacumba Jamacha-Lomita Jamul Julian Kearny Mesa Kensington La Jolla Lakeside La Mesa Lemon Grove Leucadia Liberty Station Lincoln Acres Lincoln Park Linda Vista Little Italy Logan Heights Mesa College Midway District MiraCosta College Miramar Miramar College Mira Mesa Mission Beach Mission Hills Mission Valley Mountain View Mount Hope Mount Laguna National City Nestor Normal Heights North Park Oak Park Ocean Beach Oceanside Old Town Otay Mesa Pacific Beach Pala Palomar College Palomar Mountain Paradise Hills Pauma Valley Pine Valley Point Loma Point Loma Nazarene Potrero Poway Rainbow Ramona Rancho Bernardo Rancho Penasquitos Rancho San Diego Rancho Santa Fe Rolando San Carlos San Marcos San Onofre Santa Ysabel Santee San Ysidro Scripps Ranch SDSU Serra Mesa Shelltown Shelter Island Sherman Heights Skyline Solana Beach Sorrento Valley Southcrest South Park Southwestern College Spring Valley Stockton Talmadge Temecula Tierrasanta Tijuana UCSD University City University Heights USD Valencia Park Valley Center Vista Warner Springs

San Diego's tiny role in the big opera world shuffle

Netrebko replaces Radvanovsky in Vienna; Radvanovsky sang in San Diego's Il Trovatore

No singer today is more significant than Russian soprano Anna Netrebko.
No singer today is more significant than Russian soprano Anna Netrebko.

Because of few operatic opportunities in San Diego County it is easy to forget that there is a great big world of opera out there. In that great big world there are some great big singers. I’ll spare you the great big Pavarotti play on words, or did I just obliquely make it?

Video:

Anna Netrebko

Singing arias in St. Petersburg, 2003

Singing arias in St. Petersburg, 2003

No singer today is more significant than Russian soprano Anna Netrebko. Netrebko made her reputation in the lyrical soprano repertoire with roles such as Violetta in La Traviata, Mimi in La Boheme, and Adina in The Elixir of Love. In addition to those perennial favorites, Netrebko has flourished, as could be expected, in Russian opera roles such as Tatiana in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin.

Sponsored
Sponsored
Sondra Radvanovsky — hired by the Met because Netrebko didn't want to learn title role of Norma

This year has seen Netrebko move toward the rarified space of dramatic soprano with roles such as Elsa in Frozen, pardon me, Elsa in Wagner’s Lohengrin, and the title role of Verdi’s Aida. She has just announced that she will be adding a few more new roles for the 2017-18 season.

However, two of the roles she is adding lean more toward the lyric soprano than the dramatic. Netrebko is taking on Leonora from Verdi’s The Force of Destiny and Amelia from Verdi’s A Masked Ball.

The other new role on the schedule for “Trebs” is the title character in Puccini’s Tosca. Tosca moves her back toward the dramatic side. Her debut in Tosca will be in a new production at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.

Netrebko as Tosca is a big deal but her performance will not be the one broadcast in HD to movie theaters across the country on January 27, 2018. The soprano for that performance is the Bulgarian Sonya Yoncheva.

Regarding that great big world of opera out there, this season Netrebko was supposed to perform the title role in Bellini’s Norma at The Met. She decided against learning the role which forced the Met to find a different soprano, Sondra Radvanovsky, which forced the Vienna State Opera to hire Netrebko to replace Radvanovsky as Leonora in Verdi’s Il Trovatore.

Radvanovsky performed Leonora in San Diego Opera’s 2000 production of Il Trovatore.

These changes also forced The Royal Opera Covent Garden in London to switch their casting along with Dallas Opera. A star as bright as Netrebko can create a far-reaching shuffle in the international lineup of singers.

As an aside, the Met is the best representation of the size of the opera world. Based on the current state of affairs it will take San Diego Opera over 18 years to put on as many mainstage performances as the Met is putting on in 2017-18 alone.

Of course, The Met’s annual budget is over 40 times greater than San Diego Opera’s.

Here's something you might be interested in.
Submit a free classified
or view all
Previous article

Centennial Salute to San Diego’s Military, East Village Block Party, Birding Basics Class

Events March 29-March 30, 2024
Next Article

2024 continues to impress with yellowfin much closer to San Diego than they should be

New rockfish regulations coming this week as opener approaches
No singer today is more significant than Russian soprano Anna Netrebko.
No singer today is more significant than Russian soprano Anna Netrebko.

Because of few operatic opportunities in San Diego County it is easy to forget that there is a great big world of opera out there. In that great big world there are some great big singers. I’ll spare you the great big Pavarotti play on words, or did I just obliquely make it?

Video:

Anna Netrebko

Singing arias in St. Petersburg, 2003

Singing arias in St. Petersburg, 2003

No singer today is more significant than Russian soprano Anna Netrebko. Netrebko made her reputation in the lyrical soprano repertoire with roles such as Violetta in La Traviata, Mimi in La Boheme, and Adina in The Elixir of Love. In addition to those perennial favorites, Netrebko has flourished, as could be expected, in Russian opera roles such as Tatiana in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin.

Sponsored
Sponsored
Sondra Radvanovsky — hired by the Met because Netrebko didn't want to learn title role of Norma

This year has seen Netrebko move toward the rarified space of dramatic soprano with roles such as Elsa in Frozen, pardon me, Elsa in Wagner’s Lohengrin, and the title role of Verdi’s Aida. She has just announced that she will be adding a few more new roles for the 2017-18 season.

However, two of the roles she is adding lean more toward the lyric soprano than the dramatic. Netrebko is taking on Leonora from Verdi’s The Force of Destiny and Amelia from Verdi’s A Masked Ball.

The other new role on the schedule for “Trebs” is the title character in Puccini’s Tosca. Tosca moves her back toward the dramatic side. Her debut in Tosca will be in a new production at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.

Netrebko as Tosca is a big deal but her performance will not be the one broadcast in HD to movie theaters across the country on January 27, 2018. The soprano for that performance is the Bulgarian Sonya Yoncheva.

Regarding that great big world of opera out there, this season Netrebko was supposed to perform the title role in Bellini’s Norma at The Met. She decided against learning the role which forced the Met to find a different soprano, Sondra Radvanovsky, which forced the Vienna State Opera to hire Netrebko to replace Radvanovsky as Leonora in Verdi’s Il Trovatore.

Radvanovsky performed Leonora in San Diego Opera’s 2000 production of Il Trovatore.

These changes also forced The Royal Opera Covent Garden in London to switch their casting along with Dallas Opera. A star as bright as Netrebko can create a far-reaching shuffle in the international lineup of singers.

As an aside, the Met is the best representation of the size of the opera world. Based on the current state of affairs it will take San Diego Opera over 18 years to put on as many mainstage performances as the Met is putting on in 2017-18 alone.

Of course, The Met’s annual budget is over 40 times greater than San Diego Opera’s.

Comments
Sponsored
Here's something you might be interested in.
Submit a free classified
or view all
Previous article

Best Kratom Capsules: Top Brands, Benefits & Where To Buy

Next Article

Melissa Etheridge, The Imaginary Amazon

Events April 1-April 3, 2024
Comments
Ask a Hipster — Advice you didn't know you needed Big Screen — Movie commentary Blurt — Music's inside track Booze News — San Diego spirits Classical Music — Immortal beauty Classifieds — Free and easy Cover Stories — Front-page features Drinks All Around — Bartenders' drink recipes Excerpts — Literary and spiritual excerpts Feast! — Food & drink reviews Feature Stories — Local news & stories Fishing Report — What’s getting hooked from ship and shore From the Archives — Spotlight on the past Golden Dreams — Talk of the town The Gonzo Report — Making the musical scene, or at least reporting from it Letters — Our inbox Movies@Home — Local movie buffs share favorites Movie Reviews — Our critics' picks and pans Musician Interviews — Up close with local artists Neighborhood News from Stringers — Hyperlocal news News Ticker — News & politics Obermeyer — San Diego politics illustrated Outdoors — Weekly changes in flora and fauna Overheard in San Diego — Eavesdropping illustrated Poetry — The old and the new Reader Travel — Travel section built by travelers Reading — The hunt for intellectuals Roam-O-Rama — SoCal's best hiking/biking trails San Diego Beer — Inside San Diego suds SD on the QT — Almost factual news Sheep and Goats — Places of worship Special Issues — The best of Street Style — San Diego streets have style Surf Diego — Real stories from those braving the waves Theater — On stage in San Diego this week Tin Fork — Silver spoon alternative Under the Radar — Matt Potter's undercover work Unforgettable — Long-ago San Diego Unreal Estate — San Diego's priciest pads Your Week — Daily event picks
4S Ranch Allied Gardens Alpine Baja Balboa Park Bankers Hill Barrio Logan Bay Ho Bay Park Black Mountain Ranch Blossom Valley Bonita Bonsall Borrego Springs Boulevard Campo Cardiff-by-the-Sea Carlsbad Carmel Mountain Carmel Valley Chollas View Chula Vista City College City Heights Clairemont College Area Coronado CSU San Marcos Cuyamaca College Del Cerro Del Mar Descanso Downtown San Diego Eastlake East Village El Cajon Emerald Hills Encanto Encinitas Escondido Fallbrook Fletcher Hills Golden Hill Grant Hill Grantville Grossmont College Guatay Harbor Island Hillcrest Imperial Beach Imperial Valley Jacumba Jamacha-Lomita Jamul Julian Kearny Mesa Kensington La Jolla Lakeside La Mesa Lemon Grove Leucadia Liberty Station Lincoln Acres Lincoln Park Linda Vista Little Italy Logan Heights Mesa College Midway District MiraCosta College Miramar Miramar College Mira Mesa Mission Beach Mission Hills Mission Valley Mountain View Mount Hope Mount Laguna National City Nestor Normal Heights North Park Oak Park Ocean Beach Oceanside Old Town Otay Mesa Pacific Beach Pala Palomar College Palomar Mountain Paradise Hills Pauma Valley Pine Valley Point Loma Point Loma Nazarene Potrero Poway Rainbow Ramona Rancho Bernardo Rancho Penasquitos Rancho San Diego Rancho Santa Fe Rolando San Carlos San Marcos San Onofre Santa Ysabel Santee San Ysidro Scripps Ranch SDSU Serra Mesa Shelltown Shelter Island Sherman Heights Skyline Solana Beach Sorrento Valley Southcrest South Park Southwestern College Spring Valley Stockton Talmadge Temecula Tierrasanta Tijuana UCSD University City University Heights USD Valencia Park Valley Center Vista Warner Springs
Close

Anchor ads are not supported on this page.