Concert

Valery Gergiev conducts Verdi and Wagner – With Anna Netrebko, Bryn Terfel, Eva-Maria Westbroek...

Verbier Festival Orchestra, The Collegiate Chorale

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Cast

Aleksandrs Antonenko — Otello

Anna Netrebko — Desdemona

Alexey Markov — Iago

Francesco Demuro — Cassio

Anthony Gregory — Roderigo

TBA — Montano

Bryn Terfel — Wotan

Eva-Maria Westbroek — Sieglinde

Iréne Theorin — Brünhilde

Zhanna Dombrovskaia — Gerhilde

Irina Vasilieva — Ortlinde

Natalia Evstafieva — Waltraute

TBA — Schwertleite

Tatiana Kravtsova — Helmwige

Anna Kiknadze — Grimgerde

Elena Vitman — Rossweisse

Verbier Festival Orchestra

Program notes

Valery Gergiev celebrates the two bicentennials of this operatic year 2013: those of Wagner and Verdi!

Valery Gergiev opens this concert with the first act of Otello, a psychological and bloody drama written after Shakespeare's play (and Rossini's opera), in which greed and jealousy lead to the murder of the purest creature. Anna Netrebko, one of the most sought-after Desdemona of the operatic world, sings with Aleksandrs Antonenko. Anna Netrebko and Valery Gergiev have collaborated many times, notably for the recording of the Russian Album (Deutsche Grammophon).

The second part of the programme units three of the greatest Wagnerian singers of the moment in the third act of Die Walküre: Bryn Terfel, Eva Maria Westbroek and Iréne Theorin.

Pictures: Anna Netrebko and Bryn Terfel © Aline Paley.

Anna Netrebko and Bryn Terfel appear courtesy of Deutsche Grammophon.

Anna Netrebko singing Verdi and Bryn Terfel singing Wagner: the albums!

A closer look: featured composers

Richard Wagner

Giuseppe Verdi

Further listening: featured works

The Valkyrie, WWV 86B

Richard Wagner (Composer)

Otello

Giuseppe Verdi (Composer)

Appears in

#Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen

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