The Georgian mezzo soprano Anita Rachvelishvili took a big step when, as a 25-year-old La Scala student, she was championed by Daniel Barenboim and tapped for the title role in the Carmen season opener at the venerable house. Appearances at other major houses followed, and by the time she was signed to Sony and released Anita in 2018, she had already attracted considerable buzz; little introductory marketing was required. The Bizet is fine here, but what strikes one is how well Rachvelishvili has made use of her time since ...
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The Georgian mezzo soprano Anita Rachvelishvili took a big step when, as a 25-year-old La Scala student, she was championed by Daniel Barenboim and tapped for the title role in the Carmen season opener at the venerable house. Appearances at other major houses followed, and by the time she was signed to Sony and released Anita in 2018, she had already attracted considerable buzz; little introductory marketing was required. The Bizet is fine here, but what strikes one is how well Rachvelishvili has made use of her time since her big break with Barenboim, how versatile she has become, and how strongly she has made a variety of mezzo arias her own. She sings here not only in French but in Italian (sample her formidable Nei giardin del bello, from Don Carlo), in Russian (Lyubasha's aria from Rimsky-Korsakov's The Tsar's Bride is haunting), and even in a little-known work in her native Georgian. In French she is equally adept in the fiery Bizet, the grand Massenet, and the Apollonian Saint-Saëns, and she...
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