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José Cura and Anna Netrebko
A not-to-be-missed event!
José Cura performed with Anna Netrebko in the Cologne arena, a partnership that lead to standing ovations, in April 2004; now the pair reunites in Halle.
Tickets may be purchased via the ticket hotline (05201) 818-0 as well as through all CTS booking offices. The Gerry Weber Ticket-Center may be reached atWeidenstrasse 2 (directly in the B68 in the direction of Osnabrück / Bielefeld conveniently), 33790 Halle.
SOLD OUT
Gosh, you guys are FAST! Last week, before the announcement of José Cura's participation, there were seats left. And now, just a few days later, the stadium is SOLD OUT!
OK, all your Cura fans who rushed to get tickets, help us out: remember your cameras, take lots of photos, send us your comments, and help all of us stuck at home to experience a wonderful evening in Halle!
Tentative program:
José Cura and Anna Netrebko in
Halle
Halle.
Happy news for all Anna Netrebko
fans: the 35-year-old world star
will sing on 22 August, at 8:00
o'clock (PM), in the Gerry Weber
Stadium in Halle, Westphalia.
According to statements by her
doctors, her laryngitis will be
entirely cured in time for the
next concert on 18 August in the
Cologne arena as well as the
classic event at the East
Westphalian arena. There has,
however, been a change for the
Halle summer concerts: Rolando
Villazón has had to cancel due
to illness that will keep him
from performing for the next two
months. In his place, the tour
organizer DEAG (Berlin) has
booked three of the most
important international tenors
to sing with Anna Netrebko
during the Open Air season.
So Marcelo
Alverez will partner Netrebko in
Cologne, Ramón Vargas in Berlin
and Stuttgart, and José Cura in
the east westphalian linden-tree
city. "As the local organizer,
we naturally have no influence
on these developments,” said
Ralph Weber, attorney for the
Gerry Weber Management and Event
OHG, who have responsibility for
event management in the stadium,
"and it was so close that we did not
want to cancel these concerts.
That José Cura is now coming
give me great personal
pleasure. For years I have had
the idea to hire him for a solo
concert evening. What has never
been possible is now happening.
He is a tenor of worldwide fame
and his performance with Anna
Netrebko three years ago in
Cologne was celebrated by the
public with standing ovations.” Indeed, a
renown tenor of the
international opera stage and
world star from South America
comes to Halle with José Cura,
who as a singer, composer, and
conductor is considered on of
the outstanding artists of his
generation; international opera
connoisseurs have even called
him one of the best tenors of
the 21st century. In
only a few years, the Argentine
has become one of the in-demand
singers in the big opera houses
around the world. What probably
please the female fans the most,
though, is that Cura not only
impresses with his voice but
also with his appearance. With
body-building and rugby as part
of his leisure activities, he is
one of the most attractive
heroic figures on the
international opera stage.
World-famous for his intense and
original interpretations of
opera characters, notably
Verdi’s Otello and Saint-Saëns’
Samson, as well as for his
unconventional and innovative
concert performances, José Cura
was the first artist to sing and
conduct simultaneously (both in
concert and on recordings) and
the first to combine singing
with symphonic works in a ‘half
and half’ concert format. It
comes as no surprise, then, that
the Times New York the 44-year
old Argentinian recently wrote:
"José Cura is an extraordinarily
endowed artist". Tickets for the summer concert
of Anna Netrebko and José Cura
in the Gerry Weber Stadium on 22
August are available. Both
international opera stars will
be accompanied by the orchestra Deutschen Oper Berlin under the
baton of Marco Armiliato.
Tickets may be purchased via the
ticket hotline (05201) 818-0 as
well as through all CTS booking
offices. The Gerry Weber Ticket-Center
may be reached atWeidenstrasse 2
(directly in the B68 in the
direction of Osnabrück /
Bielefeld conveniently), 33790
Halle.
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Brilliant and enjoyable
Soprano Anna Netrebko and tenor José Cura fill the stadium with enthusiasm
A beautiful evening, a brilliant concert experience—and a new dream couple for classical music?
by Hans-Jürgen Amtage
Mindener Tageblatt24 August 2007
The audience of more than 8000 in the sold-out Gerry Weber Stadium responded enthusiastically Wednesday evening to soprano Anna Netrebko and tenor José Cura. That Cura was virtually a last minute “replacement” for Netrebko’s [usual] dream partner, Rolando Villazón, in no way led to any diminution of the concert event. On the contrary: the Argentine tenor, who is not only a singer but also a composer, conductor, and photographer, convinced with his very expressive voice and his appealing manner, particularly apparent in his interaction with Anna Netrebko. It was a true pity that the audio engineers did not get a handle on the problematic tennis-stadium acoustics in the first half of the program, so that Cura’s fantastic voice occasionally had a recorded-like quality.
[…]
The new dream couple of classical music?
The fact that Anna Netrebko and José Cura did not offer mainstream classics exclusively made the concert even more pleasant. Catalani’s “La Wally” romance and Bellini’s “Casta diva” enhanced the evening most agreeably without sacrificing the Puccini and Verdi arias from La Bohéme and Otello. At the same time we were witness to how well professionals in the highest echelon of classical music can adjust to each other on such short notice with such perfection that from this evening on - Villazón may not want to hear this -we can speak of a “new” dream couple: “Netrebko and Cura.”
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Melodious sound and boredom
by Ralf Döring
Halle/Westfalen
24 August 2007
Full house and enthusiasm: the concert makes opera arias a party for the masses
The overture to Rossini’s Il barbers di Siviglia has hardly died away when the whispering filled the auditorium. Then she entered the stage: in a glittering skintight mauve dress she walked amidst the orchestra, greeted conductor Marco Armiliato and began to sing. "Quando m'en vo" from Puccini’s La Bohčme flooded the Gerry Weber's stadium - a well-shaped, nice-sounding little canapé offered to the audience of 8400 by Anna Netrebko.
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Argentine tenor José Cura was a more than equal partner. Dream couple Rolando Villazón has cancelled all performances until the end of the year in the hopes of regaining his voice. As a result, replacements had to be found for the tour and while Marcelo Álvarez in Cologne seemed to pale next to Anna Netrebko, Cura filled the stadium with an imposing appearance and a strong tenor voice rich in nuance. So convincing was he that he even received more applause than the Russian diva for his solos from Andrea Chénier and the "Recitar" from Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci.
In contrast to that was the ennui produced by conductor Marco Armiliato and the orchestra of the Deutschen Oper Berlin. With the orchestra pit settled on the show stage, the musicians fulfilled their obligation well enough – although obviously with neither the desire nor the commitment of the conductor; while there were many opportunities to breathe drama and life into the operas potpourri, he simply threw the chances away. The rest remained with the beautiful vocal sounds with which Netrebko and Cura sang the hit list from opera history.
Highpoints included "Casta diva" and "Ah, bello a me ritorna" from Bellini’s Norma and José Cura’s dramatic and moving solo "Un dě, all'azzurro spazio" from Giordano’s Andrea Chénier, as well as the duet "Giŕ nella notte densa" from Verdi’s Otello. In this number, as in the final scene from the first act of La Bohéme, Cura was a self-confident partner for Netrebko, able to engage in small jokes and shared kisses and, while inevitably compared with Villazón, was most agreeable.
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Das Programm von Netrebko und Cura
Orchester:
Ouvertüre
aus: Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Gioacchino Rossini
Anna Netrebko:
Quando m'en vo
aus: La Bohčme
Giacomo Puccini
José Cura:
Non piangere, Liu!
aus: Turandot
Giacomo Puccini
Anna Netrebko:
Chi il bel sogno di Doretta
aus: La Rondine (Die Schwalbe)
Giacomo Puccini
Orchester:
Ouvertüre
aus: Carmen
Georges Bizet
José Cura:
Un di, all'azzurro spazio
aus: Andrea Chénier - L'Improvviso
Umberto Giordano
Anna Netrebko:
Ebben, ne andro lontano
aus: La Wally
Alfredo Catalani
Anna Netrebko & José Cura:
Giŕ nella notte densa
aus: Otello
Guiseppe Verdi
--Pause--
Orchester:
Intermezzo
aus: I Pagliacci
Ruggiero Leoncavallo
José Cura:
Recitar
aus: I Pagliacci
Ruggiero Leoncavallo
Anna Netrebko:
Casta Diva...Ah bello a me ritorna
aus: Norma
Vincenzo Bellini
Orchester:
Intermezzo
aus: Cavalleria Rusticana
Pietro Mascagni
Anna Netrebko & José Cura:
Non sono in vena
aus: La Bohčme
Giacomo Puccini
José Cura:
Che gelida manina
aus: La Bohčme
Giacomo Puccini
Anna Netrebko:
Mi chiamano Mimi
aus: La Bohčme
Giacomo Puccini
Anna Netrebko & José Cura:
A soave fanciulla
aus: La Bohčme
Giacomo Puccini
--Zugaben:
Anna Netrebko:
Meine Lippen, die küssen so heiß
aus: Giuditta
Franz Lehar
Jose Cura:
Nessun dorma
aus: Turandot
Giacomo Puccini
Anna Netrebko & Jose Cura:
Libiamo
Trinklied aus La Traviata
Giuseppe Verdi*
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Thanks to Helga for these wonderful photos!!!!
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Last Updated: Saturday, September 08, 2007
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