Anna Netrebko & Dmitri Hvorostovsky: Live From Red Square (2013) [Blu-ray]

Two of the biggest names in opera join forces for a live performance from historic Red Square in the heart of Moscow, captured in stunning sound and vision with 18 high definition cameras and 5.1 cinema surround sound.

Recorded at a superb live concert on 19 June 2013, Anna Netrebko and Dmitri Hvorostovsky return to their native Russia, singing a brilliant programme of popular arias and duets from some of the world’s best-loved operas, including Tosca, Eugene Onegin, and, celebrating Verdis bicentenary, Il trovatore.They are accompanied by Russias State Academic Symphony Orchestra “Evgeny Svetlanov” and the huge forces of the Academic Grand Choir Masters of Choral Singing, under the baton of Constantine Orbelian.

Every detail of the once-in-a-lifetime event is faithfully captured by director Frank Hof, whose work includes the memorable Anna Netrebko, Placido Domingo, and Rolando Villazon performance at Berlin’s Waldbuhne, which Classical CD Review called “an absolute knock-out”… The two brought “the audience to a stunned silence with the despairing aria from Eugene Onegin” Bloomberg reported.

7500 people were present on the Red Square, more than 400 cinemas have screened the concert worldwide. Channel 1 ( Russia) , ZDF (Germany) , Arte ( France, Germany) and ORF (Austria) all have been broadcasting the Red Square concert- literally millions of viewers have seen this great evening.

Треклист:
Part I
Giuseppe Verdi - La forza del destino
Overture (Orchestra)
Giuseppe Verdi - I vespri siciliani
Merce, dilette amiche (AN)
Giuseppe Verdi - Don Carlo
Io morrу, ma lieto in core (DH)
Giuseppe Verdi - Il trovatore
Vedi! Le fosche notturne spoglie (Anvil Chorus) (Chorus)
Giuseppe Verdi - Don Carlo
Tu che la vanitб (AN)
Giuseppe Verdi - Il trovatore
Il balen del suo sorriso (DH)
Udiste? Come albeggi... Mira, d'acerbe lagrime (AH/DH)

Part II
Giacomo Puccini – Tosca
Va, Tosca (Te Deum) (DH/Chorus)
Umberto Giordano - Andrea Chenier
La mamma morta (AN)
Giuseppe Verdi - Nabucco
Va, pensiero (Chorus)
Giuseppe Verdi - Rigoletto
Cortigiani, vil razza dannata (DH)
Francesco Cilea - Adriana Lecouvreur
Io son l'umile ancella (AN)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Eugene Onegin
Bolyat moyi skori nozhenki so pokhodushki...Uzh kak po mostu, mostochku (Peasants' Chorus and Dance) (Chorus)
Polonaise (Act III, No. 19)
Final scene (AN/DH)

Encores:
Emmerich Kalman - Die Csбrdбsfьrstin
Heia, in den Bergen (AN/Chorus)
Florian Hermann (arr.S. Gerdel)/Yevhen Hrebinka
Ochi chernye (Dark Eyes) (DH)
Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi/Mikhail Matusovsky
Podmoskovniye vechera (Moscow Nights) (AN/DH)