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Article: Hot properties.(MUSIC)(Anna Netrebko of Metropolitan Opera Orchestra)
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- National Review
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- February 12, 2007
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THE opera world has a scorching-hot star on its hands: Anna Netrebko, the 35-year-old soprano from Russia. Her face is plastered on every street corner of every opera capital. She is adored and panted after. Two summers ago, she created a sensation in Verdi's Traviata at the Salzburg Festival. The next summer, they auctioned off the red couch on which she had reclined. That, my friends, is stardom.
In her years before the footlights, Netrebko has sung a variety of roles, many in Mozart, and in the bel canto repertoire. At the moment, she is Elvira in Bellini's Puritani at the Metropolitan Opera. The voice is not a classic Mozart or bel canto voice: It is a little ...