Anna Netrebko – Wagner: Tristan und Isolde: Mild und Leise (Liebestod)

In the composer’s opera on the Arthurian tale of Tristan and Isolde, death is explicitly twinned with love, and the guiding themes of this recording come together in a piece whose very name combines the two concepts, the rapturous “Liebestod” (Love- Death), Isolde’s outpouring of love as she sinks lifeless on the body of the dead Tristan. Recording this aria for her latest Album “amata dalle tenebre” was, in the Anna Netrebko’s words, “one of the happiest moments for me as a musician. I was flying when I was recording that, blissfully happy, in harmony with the music.” As part of the album project the Italian director Elena Petitti di Roreto shot a series of four music videos and the film “Anna – Stage of Emotions”, immortalizing Netrebko’s performances and translating them to screen in a unique visual language and style. Amata dalle tenebre’ is the superstar soprano’s first classical solo album for five years. She recorded her choice of music, spanning some of the most dramatic and impassioned arias