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Anna Samuil

Anna Samuil

Birth : 1976-01-01, Perm, Russia

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The soprano Anna Samuil is one of the most sought-after Russian singers of her generation and has been a soloist since 2004 at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin. Her international career quickly brought her to the major stages of the world: To the Milan Scala (Donna Anna, Freia & Gutrune), the Metropolitan Opera New York (Musetta), the Staatsoper in Munich (Violetta, Donna Anna), Dresden (Mimì) and Hamburg (Adina, Fiordiligi, Donna Anna, Violetta), to the opera houses in Valencia (Donna Anna), Lyon (Maria in Mazeppa), Tel Aviv and Tokyo (Donna Anna, Rosalinde), Pittsburgh (Violetta, Tatjana), Baltimore (Mimì) and the Grand Théâtre Luxembourg (Violetta). Anna Samuil was born in the Russian city of Perm. She studied violin as well as singing at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatoire and graduated in 2003 with distinction from the concert exam in the vocal class of Irina Arkhipova. She is a laureate of major international singing competitions, including the »Tchaikovsky Competition« and the »Glinka Competition« in Russia, the »Concorso Franco Corelli« and »Concorso Riccardo Zandonai« in Italy, and the »Klaudia Taev« competitions in Estonia and » New voices «in Germany. Her operatic debut she celebrated in the role of the swan princess at the Moscow Stanislawski Opera Theater, where she was subsequently engaged from 2001 to 2004. During this time she also appeared as Adele, Queen of Schemacha, Violetta and Gilda. At the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin, Anna Samuil made her debut in September 2003 as Violetta under the baton of Daniel Barenboim and has since appeared as Donna Anna, Fiordiligi, Contessa, Tatiana, Mimì and Musetta, Violetta, Elisabetta, Alice Ford, Adina, Micaëla, Rosalinde, Mařenka, Elsa, Eva, Freia and Gutrune.

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Wagner: Götterdämmerung

Wagner: Götterdämmerung

Gutrune/Dritte Norn

Götterdämmerung, the final instalment of Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung, is a story of human passions. Two essentially benevolent creatures, involved with and possibly doomed by their traffic with the gods, find treachery and evil in the world of the humans, and are ruined by the dark side of humanity. Iréne Theorin, acclaimed worldwide for her portrayal of Wagner’s heroines, stars as Brünnhilde opposite Lance Ryan, who continues his radiant portrayal of the tragic hero Siegfried. The strong cast also includes Mikhail Petrenko as the dark antagonist Hagen and Johannes Martin Kränzle, who once again shines as his father Alberich. Waltraud Meier has a memorable appearance as Brünnhilde’s sister Waltraute. With this 2013 recording of Götterdämmerung, the musically and visually compelling Scala Ring Cycle by Daniel Barenboim and Guy Cassiers was completed and proved to be one of the highlights of the Richard Wagner bicentenary.

Wagner: Das Rheingold

Wagner: Das Rheingold

Freia

The La Scala Rheingold in May 2010 inaugurated Guy Cassiers Ring-Cycle and introduces a completely new paradigm to this work. While before him Patrice Chéreau had laid his focus on a historical analysis from 1870 to 1930 Germany, Guy Cassiers’ Ring unfolds “from our own present-day moment; it [takes] place in ‘the now’, the Jetztzeit (Walter Benjamin), placing our present and our future into the context of the promises and curses that we have inherited from history … The Cassiers Ring shows how the globalized moment of 2010 continues to build on the Wagnerian vocabularies of 1870.” (Michael Steinberg) Cast with a number of opera stars like René Pape, Stephan Rügamer, Johannes Martin Kränzle and Anna Larsson and conducted by Daniel Barenboim, this Rheingold is bound to put the audience under its spell.

Mozart's Don Giovanni - Glyndebourne Festival 2010

Mozart's Don Giovanni - Glyndebourne Festival 2010

Donna Anna

Mozart's second collaboration with the mercurial librettist Lorenzo da Ponte is among the very blackest of black comedies. Glyndebourne welcomes back the winning team of director Jonathan Kent and designer Paul Brown, while the music is conducted by Vladimir Jurowski. In the title role, the bass-baritone Gerald Finley, joined by Luca Pisaroni, Kate Royal and the young Russian soprano Anna Samuil.

Tatyana

The Wiener Philharmoniker mounts, and Andrea Breth stages, this 2007 production of Pyotr Illych Tchaikovsky's opera Eugene Onegin, starring Peter Mattei, Joseph Kaiser, Anna Samuil and Renée Morloc. The Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor lends added musical accompaniment, under the baton of Daniel Barenboim.