Anna Samuil
Actor · b. 1976 · Perm, Russia
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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Movie3.5MusicGötterdämmerung, 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.
Götterdämmerung
2013 · 2 votes
Movie4.0MusicAufführung vom 09.02.2020 in derf Staatsoper Berlin. André Heller is staging "Der Rosenkavalier" (his first opera production) at the Berlin State Opera. The story of a young nobleman caught between two women in Maria Theresa's Vienna is full of bold twists and fantastic entanglements. And as if made for an imaginative realization with all the means of modern theater. André Heller can rely on a first-class ensemble... André Heller is a chansonnier, actor, circus founder, vaudeville maker and stager of spectacles in which a variety of genres are combined with exuberant fantasy. In Berlin, Heller follows in the footsteps of Max Reinhardt, who ruled the Berlin stages at the beginning of the 20th century and revolutionized the theater with a multitude of innovations. Reinhardt also staged the world premiere of "Der Rosenkavalier" in 1911. It will be interesting to see how today's multimedia genius deals with the legacy of the great theater genius of yesteryear.
Der Rosenkavalier - Staatsoper Berlin
2020 · 1 votes
Movie6.0MusicThe 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.
Eugene Onegin
2007 · 1 votes