Quelle coïncidence! On Saturday, the very same night that Anna Netrebko is scheduled to return (lungs permitting) to the Royal Opera House to complete her run in La traviata, Natalie Dessay will be incorporating Violetta's E' Strano….Sempre libera degg’io into her Barbican recital.
Interesting timing you might think, but like the rest of the evening's programme, it's included on her latest recording.
Dessay will be performing her first Violetta in Santa Fe in 2009, though as she told the Observer last month:
