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Daniel Barenboim, Anna Netrebko, Anna Prohaska and Bryn Terfel at La Scala - read more

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Grammy® Nominations

Deutsche Grammophon recordings by Gustavo Dudamel, Yuja Wang and Sting have received nominations for the most prestigious US music award, the GRAMMY®.

Winners will be chosen by The Recording Academy’s voting membership and announced at the 54th Annual GRAMMY® Awards ceremony in Los Angeles on February 12, 2012.

Sincerest congratulations to our GRAMMY®-nominated artists and their recording teams:

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Daniel Barenboim, Anna Netrebko, Anna Prohaska and Bryn Terfel at La Scala

Don Giovanni opened the Scala season on 7 December in an “utterly exhilarating” (Il Sole) new production by Robert Carsen, conducted by veteran Mozartian and Scala music director Daniel Barenboim, with a starry cast featuring Peter Mattei in the title role, Anna Netrebko as Donna Anna – a signature role she has already sung to enormous acclaim at the Salzburg Festival, Mariinsky Theatre, Vienna State Opera and Covent Garden –, Bryn Terfel as Leporello, Barbara Frittoli as Donna Elvira and Anna Prohaska as Zerlina. Long, enthusiastic ovations greeted the performance, attended by notables including Italian prime minister Mario Monti and president Giorgio Napolitano and relayed live on Arte TV as well as to cinemas all over the world.

Rave reviews have been pouring in from all over. Le Monde, lauding the “best possible cast at present”, singled out Anna Netrebko’s “superlative” Anna, Peter Mattei’s “magisterial” Giovanni and Bryn Terfel’s Leporello, “played to the hilt”. Il Sole heaped praise on Anna Netrebko, “the diva with pearls in her voice”, as well as on Mattei (“splendid”), Frittoli (“heroically feminine”) and Terfel (“fantastic”), finally passing judgment on the entire production: “Perfect”. The New York Times wrote: “Anna Netrebko’s richly resonant voice is heard to seething effect in the accompanied recitative when Donna Anna recognizes Don Giovanni as her father’s killer, a powerful moment in a compelling portrayal. Later, Ms. Netrebko delivers a finely etched ‘Non mi dir’.” The Observer observed: “Netrebko’s Donna Anna was thrilling in her nobility and ease of execution. She is on grand form . . . Bryn Terfel found humour and despair, frustration and embarrassment, tenderness and blind fury in his convincing ‘outsider’ Leporello . . . Flowers rained down on the performers like stair rods.”

La Repubblica rhapsodized over “a musically exceptional performance”, attributing much of its success to Maestro Barenboim’s “absolute delicacy of phrasing and extraordinary attention to the rapport between stage and orchestra pit”. And Die Presse had special glowing words for yet another Anna – Anna Prohaska as Zerlina: “a demonstration of remarkable vocal agility, imparting the melodic lines with a spectrum of delicately modulated colours.”

La Scala’s acclaimed new Don Giovanni continues until mid-January. Another Deutsche Grammophon artist, the versatile Ildebrando D’Arcangelo, will take over the title role on 16 and 20 December and then move into the part of his servant Leporello for the performances on 23 and 28 December and 4, 8, 12 and 14 January.