| Biography | Anna Yuryevna Netrebko is an Austro-Russian operatic soprano. She had been known for her rendition of lyric and coloratura soprano roles, most notably Donna Anna in Mozart's Don Giovanni and Violetta in Verdi's La traviata, and proceeded into heavier 19th-century romantic roles, such as Leonora in Il trovatore and the title role in Macbeth. Since 2016, she has turned her focus to Verismo repertoire. She was noticed globally after playing Donna Anna at the 2002 Salzburg Festival.
Under Gergiev's guidance, Netrebko made her operatic stage debut at the Mariinsky at age 22, as Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro.
In 2002, Netrebko made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera as Natasha in the Met premiere of War and Peace. In the same year, she sang her first Donna Anna at the Salzburg Festival's production of Don Giovanni, conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt. In 2007, she made her Carnegie Hall debut with Dmitri Hvorostovsky and the Orchestra of St. Luke's. She appeared at the Last Night of the Proms in that year and performed excerpts from La sonnambula and Giuditta, and lied Morgen! by Richard Strauss with Joshua Bell. Later that year, she reprised her role as Juliette in Roméo et Juliette at the Metropolitan Opera. |