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| One of my favorites among the recordings of Dmitri Hvorostovsky is his Arie Antiche available from amazon.com |
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| Dmitri Hvorostovsky is scheduled to sing Giorgio Germont in La Traviata with Renée Fleming and Ramón Vargas, conducted by Valery Gergiev, in the opening performance of the Metropolitan Opera's 2003-2004 season. AP article. |
| Dmitri Hvorostovsky will sing the title role in Mozart's Don Giovanni at the Metropolitan Opera in New York during the 2002-2003 season. |
The soundtrack "Leporello's Revenge" as MP3 can be ordered from amazon.com
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| "Nearly 40 and at the peak of his powers, [Dmitri Hvorostovsky] has vowed to look after himself better," reports an article of April 9, 2002, in the Telegraph. "'I'd given up smoking years ago but finally kicked alcohol last year. I even go the gym. In the old days I was a typical Russian who loved his vodka.'" The article also says that "one of the reasons why he fell out with his last record company, Philips Classics, was its attempts to push him into 'tacky' collaborations." |
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| "In a 90-minute program split evenly between Russian art songs by tormented arch-Romantic Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky and the sometimes-saccharine neo-Romantic Sergei Rachmaninov, Hvorostovsky showed he is truly in his vocal and artistic prime, displaying a rich, flexible voice, remarkable breath control, careful phrasing and subtle dynamic texturing. "But Hvorostovsky's characteristic intensity and a program drawn from The Sorrows Of The Young Werther school of wallowing in the maudlin made for a heavy aesthetic slog."--from a review by John Terauds in the Toronto Star of November 19, 2002. |