Anna Netrebko Live in Concert
The Met’s pay-per-view series features the superstar soprano in a captivating program from the Spanish Riding School in Vienna, on Saturday, February 6, at 1pm ET
Tickets, priced at $20, are now on sale on the Met’s website
New York, NY (January 27, 2021)— Russian soprano Anna Netrebko will perform a live concert on Saturday, February 6, at 7:00pm CET/1:00pm ET, from the historic Spanish Riding School in Vienna, Austria, as part of the Met Stars Live in Concert series. The program features Russian songs by Rachmaninoff, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Tchaikovsky as well as selections by Debussy, Dvořák, Fauré and Strauss. Accompanied by Pavel Nebolsin on piano, Ms. Netrebko will also be joined by mezzo-soprano Elena Maximova for duets from Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann and Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades. The recital will be streamed live via the Met website and will then be available on demand through February 26.
The Met Stars Live in Concert series features a lineup of some of opera’s leading artists performing in striking locations across Europe and the United States. Concerts already presented include tenor Jonas Kaufmann from Polling, Bavaria; soprano Renée Fleming in Washington, D.C.; tenor Roberto Alagna and soprano Aleksandra Kurzak in Èze, France; soprano Lise Davidsen in Oslo, Norway; mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato in Bochum, Germany; soprano Diana Damrau and tenor Joseph Calleja in Caserta, Italy; bass-baritone Bryn Terfel in Wales; sopranos Angel Blue and Pretty Yende with tenors Javier Camarena and Matthew Polenzani in a New Year’s Eve concert in Augsburg, Germany; and soprano Sondra Radvanovsky and Piotr Beczała from the Historische Stadthalle in Wuppertal, Germany, which remains on demand through February 26.
Future concerts will feature soprano Sonya Yoncheva (February 27) and Angel Blue (TBA). The concerts are shot with multiple cameras, linked by satellite to a control room in New York City, where soprano Christine Goerke, host of the program, is situated. Gary Halvorson, the award-winning director of the Met’s Live in HD cinema transmissions, directs.
The Program
“Lilacs,” Op.21, No. 5
By Sergei Rachmaninoff
“Before my window,” Op. 26, No. 10
By Sergei Rachmaninoff
“How fair this spot,” Op. 21, No. 7
By Sergei Rachmaninoff
“The lark’s song rings more clearly,” Op. 43, No. 1
By Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
“Morgen!” Op. 27, No. 4
By Richard Strauss
“Il pleure dans mon cœur”
By Claude Debussy
“Depuis le jour”
From G. Charpentier’s Louise
“It was in the early spring,” Op. 38, No. 2
By Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
“Tell me, in the shade of the branches,” Op. 57, No. 1
By Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
“Mattinata”
By Ruggero Leoncavallo
“Uzh vecher … Oblakov pomerknuli kraya”
From Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades
“The clouds begin to scatter,” Op. 42, No. 3
By Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
“Nights of Delirium,” Op.60, No.6
By Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
“Die Nacht,” Op. 10, No. 3
By Richard Strauss
“Ständchen,” Op. 17, No. 2
By Richard Strauss
“Songs my mother taught me” from Gypsy Songs
By Antonín Dvořák
“A Dream,” Op. 8, No. 5
By Sergei Rachmaninoff
“Belle nuit, ô nuit d’amour” (Barcarolle)
From Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann
“Amidst the day,” Op. 47, No. 6
By Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Program subject to change.