Concert

Concert, Netrebko, Kaufmann, Schrott, Armiliato

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sSQ_G1yPns

Anna Netrebko

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Netrebko

photos

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Jonas Kaufmann

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonas_Kaufmann

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Erwin Schrott

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Schrott

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Marco Armiliato

http://imgartists.com/artist/marco_armiliato

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While many non-opera fans are still hanging on to the long outdated image of screeching fat lady opera singers, today's opera enthusiasts are reveling in the overabundance of gorgeously fit and smooth-singing operatic femme fatales sizzling up opera houses all over the world.

To tell the truth, if opera doesn't end until the fat lady sings, then most performances today would simply go on forever...

There is just too severe a shortage of sufficiently heavy sopranos at the opera houses to fit the bill!

To prove the point, here is a list of 10 extremely gorgeous and talented female opera singers performing on the stage today. It is hard to choose just 10 of the current crop of operatic eye-candy sirens, though, so my sincere apologies to those deserving others whom I must leave out:

http://voices.yahoo.com/todays-sexiest-female-opera-singers-7206314.html?cat=2

1. Anna Netrebko: The dark-voiced soprano who started her career as a janitor at the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg, Russia before rising to world stardom and magazine cover girl is, by all account, a real life Cinderella. The difference, though, is that Netrebko's success came not through magic but hard work and her infectiously enthusiastic can-do attitude. Now naturalized as an Austrian and married with kids to bona fide barihunk Erwin Schrott, gorgeously glamorous Netrebko remains very approachable and unpretentious in person. Opera fans and pop lovers alike can't get enough of her. Her solo CDs even top the German pop music chart! On this side of the pond, Netrebko keeps an apartment in New York and has been on many American television shows including Good Morning America and a segment of 60 Minutes news magazine.

The operatic world today is densely populated by svelte singers who would not look out of place on fashion magazine covers.

This list contains just ten or the many czgowchwz operatic leading men (the women will require an article of their own) guys should never leave their gals alone with. Not for anything these tuneful heart-throbs would do, mind you, but quite the other way around!

http://voices.yahoo.com/todays-ten-sexiest-male-opera-singers-7179332.html?cat=2

1.Jonas Kaufmann: This born and bred Bavarian can easily pass for a darkly masculine Greek god. But even if he doesn't (pass as a Greek god), Jonas Kaufmann is perhaps the most versatile of operatic leading tenors operating in many decades. Name the operatic sub-genre and chances are good that he has excelled in it. Anything from Monteverdi to Mozart, Wagner, Schubert, Verdi, Puccini, and even to contemporary composer (click here for a sample video of him). As Lohengrin, Don Jose, Don Carlo, and many other operatic heroes, Kaufmann on the stage exudes such animal magnetism that he can hold his audiences' undivided attention even when silent and surrounded by a stage-ful of shirtless baritones. Somehow managing to juggle a very successful opera career with his blossoming marriage (complete with three happy kids), the handsome singing thespian was recently named ECHO Klassik's 2010 Singer of the Year.

9. Erwin Schrott: Up until a couple of years ago this statuesque Uruguayan bass-baritone was known more as the husband of Anna Netrebko, opera's favorite dark-voiced goddess next door. Since shedding his excess poundage a few years ago, however, Mr. Schrott is proving as head-turning as his wife is, especially in his decidedly bewitching turn as Mozart's Don Giovanni.