"To me ... a basic lack of engagement with the characters involved ... Or at least that's the case until we get to the extract from Manon Lescaut. Here ... we finally get a sense of a real person engaged in a real drama, of Manon and Des Grieux in the direst of straits, as Netrebko and her tenor (and husband), Yusif Eyvazov, tug at the heart strings. His voice is pleasingly grainy ... [and] she sounds in good voice, too: darker, richer in tone than previously on disc and full across the range".