Anna Netrebko
Anna Netrebko
Anna Yuryevna Netrebkois a Russian operatic soprano. She now holds dual Russian and Austrian citizenship and currently resides in Vienna, Austria and in New York City...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionOpera Singer
Date of Birth18 September 1971
CityKrasnodar, Russia
CountryRussian Federation
beautiful home thinking
Im just a normal person. Its not like I come home and think about opera. My thoughts are about completely other things. Shoes! Dresses! Expensive ones: with a pretty silhouette, beautiful fabrics.
concert people
When you're singing before 15,000 people at a summer concert outside, you need to look beautiful, because that's what people want.
sweet nice dark
Maybe because Im a nice and sweet person in life, I like the darker roles. The really dark one is Lady Macbeth.
artist light needs
I know what I want, and I know what needs to be done to make my performance better. So I do these little askings, about the lights and costumes. Its not the diva speaking. Its the artist who knows how it has to be done.
support doe sometimes
I prefer it when the conductor follows me. It is more difficult to work with a conductor who does not listen - even if I understand that sometimes it makes sense when one person is ruling everything. But for bel canto, I have to have a conductor who listens and supports me.
mistake feelings intuition
I have an intuition, and usually my intuition is right. I have a feeling for whether a role will be good or bad for me, and I almost never make a mistake.
littles needs our-lives
Russians always need a little sh*t in our lives. If everything is good and we seem completely happy, then we become suspicious of that.
teacher moving want
When I started, my teachers told me that I had to sing Mozart, Mozart, Mozart. I said, No, I want to sing all the other stuff. If you do not push yourself, you will stay the same. Maybe some singers are happy with that, but I have to move, I have to do something new always.
opera singers boring
Lots of opera singers are just boring.
breath developing easiest matter singer sound though
I am still working on developing my voice. I am, I know, better as a coloratura singer than I was. It's a matter of strong breath control and yet making it sound as though it is the easiest thing in the world.
great sitting
Applause, it's very nice, of course. But when you're giving, and creating, and then there is the silence of everyone sitting there, listening, waiting, that is great.
You will not see me dressed in plain, modest outfits.
believe starve
You should not starve yourself with stupid diets, which I don't believe in anyway.
The role I really want to sing is Elisabetta from 'Don Carlo.'