She was repeatedly invited abroad for solo performances and operas. She performed together with the world’s best-known conductors, including Valery Gergiev, James Levine, Seiji Ozawa, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Zubin Mehta, Colin Davis and Claudio Abbado. In an interview to The Observer newspaper in 2007 the singer said she chose Western music because “she had no voice for Russian music.” Despite the packed touring schedule, she remained the lead singer of the Mariinskiy Theater. Petersburg, at Madrid’s Real Theater, at Milan’s La Scala, London’s Covent Garden and at the Easter Festival in Moscow. She later reprised the role at the Mariinskiy Theater in St. Critics say it was one of Netrebko’s best roles. She debuted at the Metropolitan Opera in the United States as Natasha Rostova in “War and Peace” (“Voyna i Mir”). As part of the Mariinskiy Theater troupe, she toured Finland, Germany, France, Israel, the Netherlands, Italy, Japan, Turkey and the US. According to her official biography, in 1994, while still a student in her fourth year, she debuted in the Mariinskiy Theatre’s production of “Figaro’s Marriage.” According to Radio Svoboda, she never graduated from the conservatory. In 1993 Netrebko won in a nationwide vocalist contest and was invited to the Mariinskiy Theater, where she sang in a wide repertoire. While in the conservatory she worked as a cleaner at the Mariinskiy Theater. In 1990 she entered the vocal faculty of the Rimsky-Korsakov Leningrad Conservatory. When she was 17, she won second prize and the people’s choice award in the Miss Kuban Beauty Contest. She was also a capable athlete and now holds the title of master of sports in acrobatics and sport categories in athletics. While in school, she was the lead singer of the “Kuban Pioneers” ensemble. According to her father, she started singing in kindergarten. She was born in Krasnodar on the Kuban River in Southern Russia into a geologist’s family. Anna Yuryevna Netrebko is a Russian soprano opera singer, and a People’s Artist of Russia.
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