Amata Dalle Tenebre (CD)

The greatest opera star of our times is back: Anna Netrebko returns with her first solo album in five years “Amata dalle tenebre”. Celebrating her 50th Birthday on 18th September, the prima donna assoluta at the height of her formidable powers presents a dazzling array of iconic soprano arias by Verdi, Wagner, Strauss, Puccini, Cilea and Purcell, also including Dido’s Lament, Anna’s first ever Baroque track in the English language. This special Album was recorded with Maestro Riccardo Chailly and the Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala.

Tracklist:

1. RICHARD STRAUSS Es gibt ein Reich, wo alles rein ist

Ariadne auf Naxos (Ariadne)

1. GIUSEPPE VERDI Ritorna vincitor! … Numi, pietà

Aida, Act I: Scena e romanza (Aida)

1. GIUSEPPE VERDI Tu che le vanità conoscesti del mondo

Don Carlo, Act V: Scena (Elisabetta)

1. RICHARD WAGNER Dich, teure Halle, grüß ich wieder!

Tannhäuser, Act II (Elisabeth)

1. FRANCESCO CILEA Poveri fiori, gemme de’ prati

Adriana Lecouvreur, Act IV (Adriana)

1. PYOTR I. TCHAIKOVSKY Uzh polnoch blitzitsya … Akh, istomilas ya gorem

Pique Dame, Act III: Scene and arioso (Lisa)

1. GIACOMO PUCCINI Un bel dì vedremo

Madama Butterfly, Act II (Butterfly)

1. RICHARD WAGNER Einsam in trüben Tagen

Lohengrin, Act I (Elsa)

1. GIACOMO PUCCINI Sola, perduta, abbandonata

Manon Lescaut, Act IV (Manon)

1. HENRY PURCELL Thy hand, Belinda … When I am laid in earth (Dido’s Lament)

Dido and Aeneas, Act III (Dido)

1. RICHARD WAGNER Mild und leise wie er lächelt

Tristan und Isolde, Act III: Liebestod (Isolde)