Opera lite? Outsold Beyoncé and Britney Spears?

• Netrebko worked as a floor cleaner and did odd jobs at St. Petersburg's Mariinsky TheatreKirov Opera! home of the Kirov Opera!
• Time Magazine placed her on its Time 100 list in 2007. She was identified by the journal Musical America as “a genuine superstar for the 21st century” and was named 'Musician of the Year' for 2008.
• People's Artist of Russia by Presiden Putin in 2008
• Her “Traviata” at Salzburg three years ago was such a hot ticket that scalpers were reportedly charging $7,000 a seat, and her records regularly top the charts in Europe.
• The Woman, the Voice,” which when it first came out in Europe in 2004 outsold Beyoncé and Britney Spears.