Composer: Giacomo Puccini
Performer: Anna Netrebko, Benjamin Bernheim, Yusif Eyvazov, Erik Anstine, Szilvia Vörös, Armando Piña, Patrick Vogel, Simon Shibambu, Carlos Chausson, Wiener Staatsoper
Orchestra: Munich Radio Orchestra
Conductor: Marco Armiliato
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Catalogue: 94796828
Release: 2016
Size: 1.22 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Manon Lescaut
Act I
01. “Ave, sera gentile”
02. “L’amor?! L’amor?!”
03. “Tra voi, belle, brune e bionde”
04. “Ma bravo!”
05. “Discendono, vediam!”
06. “Cortese damigella”
07. “Donna non vidi mai”
08. “La tua ventura ci rassicura”
09. “La tua Proserpina”
10. “Vedete? Io son fedele”
11. “Non c’è più vino?”
12. “Cavalli pronti avete?”
Act II
13. “Dispettosetto questo riccio!”
14. “In quelle trine morbide”
15. “Poiché tu vuoi saper?”
16. “Che ceffi son costor?…Sulla vetta tu del monte”
17. “Paga costor!”
18. “Vi prego, signorina (Minuetto)…L’ora, O Tirsi, è Vi Signori, Abati”
19. “Oh, sarò la più bella!…Tu, tu, amore? Tu?”
20. “Ah!…Affé, madamigella”
21. “Ah! ah! Liberi!…Ah! Manon, mi tradisce”
22. “Lescaut? Tu qui?”
23. Intermezzo
Act III
24. “Ansia eterna, crudel”
25. “… e Kate ripose al Re”
26. “Manon, disperato è il mio prego!”
27. “All’armi! All’armi!”
28. “Rosetta!…Eh! Che aria!”
29. “Presto! In fila!…No! pazzo son!”
Act IV
30. “Tutta su me ti posa”
31. “Manon, senti amor mio…Vedi, son io che piango”
32. “Sei tu che piangi?”
33. “Sola perduta, abbandonata”
34. “Fra le tue braccia, amore!”
To follow and accompany Anna Netrebko’s latest and highly anticipated VERISMO release, DG presents MANON LESCAUT – Live from Salzburg!
The release ties in with her upcoming performances of Manon Lescaut at the Met this November.
This outstanding concert performance of Manon Lescaut with Anna Netrebko and Yusif Eyvazov was the absolute highlight of the 2016’s Salzburg Festival – a moment of operatic glory, captured live for this unique release.
Anna excelled herself and fascinated the audience with the perfection of her exceptional voice, her unrivaled interpretation and her devotion to this very part – she is the Manon Lescaut of our time. While Verismo already features the aria “In quelle trine morbide” and the fourth act of Manon Lescaut in a breathtaking studio-version, documenting her great passion to this work, the complete recording of Manon Lescaut will be a great addition to Anna’s fans and opera lovers alike.
It has also been a matter of personal importance and dedication for Anna to document this work in its entirety.
Russian soprano Anna Netrebko made a well-publicized debut at New York’s Metropolitan Opera in 2016, and this live concert performance from the Salzburg Festival, recorded the same year with many of the same forces, was perhaps intended to capitalize on the event. It likely makes a good substitute for the Met performance. La Netrebko dominates the proceedings, even when paired with her husband, Azeri tenor Yusif Eyvazov, in the role of des Grieux. You might take this as a negative or as a positive: when you’re dealing with a star of Netrebko’s magnitude, the proper effect is achieved when the stage takes on a jolt of electricity when the prima donna appears. That’s what happens here, for Netrebko has the elusive combination of dramatic effectiveness and musical power that has put her at the top of the soprano heap. Sample “In quelle trine morbide” from Act II, where Manon’s thoughts turn from the bureaucrat who keeps her as his mistress to her true love des Grieux, for a taste of how Netrebko keeps the action moving along through dramatic commitment and control of the big long line. There’s nothing wrong with the work of Eyvazov, the rest of the cast, and conductor Marco Armiliato, who was retained for the New York production, and really the biggest complaint is the rather boxy sound from the Salzburg Festspielhaus. But that’s a small price to pay for the chance to experience perhaps the premier soprano voice of her time at its peak.