ANNA NETREBKO

Anna Netrebko - Soprano

“A soprano with star power in the best sense, a charismatic expressivity that pervades every element of her performance.” – Anthony Tommasini, New York Times

Throughout an illustrious career beginning in 1994, Anna Netrebko has arguably become a reigning prima donna of the 21st century. Either as the toast of season opening productions at the Teatro alla Scala in Milano or the Metropolitan Opera in New York, a featured soloist at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics, or the first classical music artist named to Time magazine’s annual list of the world’s 100 most influential people, Netrebko has consistently distinguished herself inside – and outside – the world of opera.

In live performance and on numerous award-winning recordings, Netrebko’s portrayals of opera’s most iconic heroines demonstrate a remarkable range and artistic sensibility. Her interpretations span from Mozart operas, bel canto masterpieces (including Bellini’s La sonnambula and Donizetti’s Anna Bolena), French chefs d’oeuvres (Massenet’s Manon and Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette), Puccini (from La bohème to Turandot), Verdi (from La traviata to Aida to Macbeth), verismo (Giordano’s Andrea Chénier and Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur), Tchaikovsky (from Iolanta to Eugene Onegin), Wagner’s Lohengrin to much more. Netrebko’s insatiable curiosity about operatic repertoire promises further role debuts in upcoming seasons, including most recently Verdi’s Nabucco and Ponchielli’s La Gioconda, to be followed in 2025 by Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos and Tchaikovsky’s Pique Dame.

In addition to regularly headlining productions with the world’s leading opera companies, Netrebko has appeared extensively in concerts and recitals across five continents. Her performances in celebration of the World Cup openings in 2006 at Berlin’s Waldbühne amphitheater and in 2018 in Moscow’s Red Square were both internationally televised events. An exclusive Deutsche Grammophon recording artist since 2003, Netrebko’s extensive discography comprises complete operas, concert repertoire, numerous bestselling solo albums, and a recording of love duets with her husband, Azerbaijani tenor Yusif Eyvazov. Featuring arias by Verdi, Wagner, Strauss, Puccini, Cilea and Purcell, her most recent album, Amata dalle tenebre, was released in November 2021, while her 2016 solo release, Verismo, debuted at No. 1 on the classical charts in dozens of countries.

Among her numerous awards and distinctions, Netrebko has received three Grammy Award nominations, Germany’s Bambi Award, and the UK’s Classical BRIT Awards for “Singer of the Year” and “Female Artist of the Year”. Netrebko is a global ambassador for Chopard jewellery.

Born in 1971 in Krasnodar, Russia, Netrebko studied vocal performance at the St. Petersburg Conservatory and completed the Merola Opera Program in San Francisco. A devoted mother, she is an ardent defender of the causes of underprivileged children through the various associations that she has supported for many years.

Pavel Nebolsin

"Incredible, beautiful musician... True big Artist." – Anna Netrebko

Pavel was born to a musical family and studied music from
the young age. He became the laureate of Young Soloists Festival (1995) and Classic Heritage International Competition (1998). He graduated from Gnessin State Academy of Music in 2008. Pavel has received the Best Accompanist diplomas from the Russian Vocal Levko Competition (2008), the International Festival Modern Art and Education (Ruza, 2007), the International Antonin Dvorak Singing Competition
(Karlovy Vary, 2006), the Glinka International Vocal Contest.

He joined the Bolshoi Theatre's Young Artist Programme in October 2009 and became an in-house accompanist and repetiteur of the Bolshoi in 2011. Pavel has taken part in master classes given by such renowned musicians and music educators as George Darden (Metropolitan Opera), Lubov Orfenova, Antonello Allemandi, Eugene Nesterenko, Irina Bogacheva, Laura Claycomb, Richard Bado and many more.

Together with the participants of the Bolshoi Theatre's Young Artist Programme, he performed at the International Chaliapin Competition Voices of Plyos (2010).

He also took part in opera projects by Moscow Philharmonic Society: concert performances of Gounod's Roméo et Juliette and Bizet's The Pearl Fishers. In 2010 he played for the 3rd Levitan Music Festival in Plyos under direction of Alexei Goribol. In 2011 he performed at the Big Hall of Moscow Philharmonic Society with Anna Bonitatibus, Antonio Fogliani and Novaya Rossiya Symphony Orchestra.

In 2012, as a part of one-act ballet Dream of Dreams, Pavel Nebolsin performed Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No 2 on the new stage of the Bolshoi Theatre. Since 2013 Pavel has been regularly performing with the soloists of the Bolshoi abroad, including a recital with Eugene Nesterenko. In 2017 Pavel played for soprano Venera Gimadieva in her recital at Edinburgh Festival. And next year, again, for her Wigmore Hall debut in London. He has worked and performed with such conductors as Rozhdestvensky, Sinaisky, Sagripanti, Mazzola, Korchak. Pavel has received a special award from the trustee board of the Bolshoi Theatre for his contribution to the theatre's success. From 2017 he has been regularly working with Yusif Eyvazov and Anna Netrebko as a music coach and accompanist performing in Dubai, Monaco, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt and Hamburg.

SERENA MALFI - mezzo-soprano

Italian mezzo-soprano Serena Malfi made her operatic debut in 2009 at Opernhaus Zürich. Since then she has sung in the biggest Opera houses around the world including Teatro Comunale e Opera di Firenze, Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Concertegebouw in Amsterdam, Palau de les Arts in Valencia, Teatro Real in Madrid, Opera de Oviedo, Opéra National de Paris, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Teatro Colón, Wiener Staatsoper, Staatsoper Berlin, Teatro alla Scala, The Royal Opera House (Covent Garden), Bayerische Staatsoper, The Metropolitan Opera House of New York, the Canadian Opera Company (Toronto), Opéra de Lausanne, Teatro di San Carlo, Staatsoper Dresden, the San Francisco Opera, the Los Angeles Opera, Staatsoper Hamburg, ABAO Bilbao, the New National Theatre Tokyo and the National Centre for the Performing Arts Beijing.

Serena has sung with conductors such as Daniel Barenboim, Silvain Cambreling, Louis Langrée, Riccardo Frizza, Michele Mariotti, Ottavio Dantone, Alan Curtis, Corrado Rovaris, Alain Altinoglu, Jeremy Rohrer, Thomas Hengelbrock, Sir Mark Elder, Evelino Pidó, Marc Minkowski, Fabio Luisi, Roberto Abbado and Riccardo Chailly.

She worked with directors such as the Oscar Winner Gabriele Salvatores, the Oscar Winner Michael Hanneke, Emma Dante, Pier Luigi Pizzi, Chiara Muti, Lorent Pelly, Claus Guth, Karl-Ernst e Ursel Herrmann, Jürgen Flimm, Mariame Clement, Emilio Sagi, Joan Font, Alex Ollé (La Fura dels Baus) and in revival of Ronconi, Ponnelle, Sir Richard Eyre, Paul Curran, Michael Grandage, Jonathan Miller and Ettore Scola.

Serena debuted at the Teatro alla Scala in 2014 as Despina Così fan tutte, returning there in 2017 for a new production of Rossini’s La gazza ladra. She has performed Cherubino Le nozze di Figaro at Wiener Staatsoper, the Metropolitan Opera, the San Francisco Opera, Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, the Royal Opera House Muscat in Oman, Opera del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and the Hamburg Staatsoper.

She sang Rosina Il barbiere di Siviglia at Opernhaus Zürich, The Royal Opera House (Covent Garden), Teatro Real (Madrid), Staatsoper Berlin, the Canadian Opera Company, Teatro Comunale di Bologna including a tournée in Japan and the Macerata Opera Festival. She sang her first La cenerentola in 2010 and repeated the role at Opera de Paris, Palau des les Arts in Valencia, Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Wiener Staatsoper, Teatro San Carlo di Napoli and Los Angeles among others.

Dorabella Così fan tutte is one of her popular roles and she performed it at the Metropolitan Opera, in Covent Garden, Hamburg Staatsoper, the Royal Opera Muscat and Teatro di San Carlo among others.

The 24/25 season brings Serena’s house debut with Opera Australia as Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia.

Serena is currently expanding her repertoire with more bel canto and french roles.