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Dmitri Hvorostovsky postpones recitals for further brain tumour treatment
Dmitri Hvorostovsky is having to postpone upcoming recitals in Kaliningrad and Minsk as well as cancel his Wiener Staatsoper recital on March 7 after being advised by his doctors to continue treatment...
View ArticleOpera News announces its 2011 Awards Honourees: Mattila, Silja, Hvorostovsky,...
The September issue of Opera News (available from August 4) reveals their chosen artists in the opera field who will receive the magazine’s annual award. The seventh annual Opera News Awards will be...
View ArticleCritics Round-up: the Royal Opera’s Faust
Gounod’s Faust is, on the one hand, a gift for directors and performers – as Geoff Brown says in The Times, “It’s a Cecil B De Mille film directed by Bob Fosse, and Hell on Earth in more ways than one”...
View ArticleIvari Ilja upstages Dmitri Hvorostovsky at the Barbican
Accompanimsts are mostly ignored in recital reveiws, relegated to the signing off paragaraph. Graham Johnson usually gets a little more attention as he often assembles the programme, writes the notes...
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Baryshnikov and Netrebko weigh in on the Bolshoi scandal: a non-stop ugly...
The tragic news made headlines around the globe, “Bolshoi director in acid attack”. It was horrifying; so shocking that it was hard to take in. It felt like the stuff of a Hollywood movie: the...
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Sad news: Dmitri Hvorostovsky has a brain tumour
An understated message on Dmitri Hvorostovsky’s website announced that he has a brain tumour, but seemed more concerned with the trouble it may cause for ticket holders of the events he has had to...
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ROYAL OPERA SEASON 2016 – 2017: theatre, cinema and radio
All the details of the 2016-2017 Opera Season at London’s Royal Opera House: skip to section: ROYAL OPERA 2016-2017 SEASON – IN BRIEF THE ROYAL OPERA 2016-2017 SEASON THE ROYAL OPERA SEASON 2016-2017 –...
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La Scala remembers Dmitri Hvorostovsky who has died at 55
Teatro alla Scala has learnt with profound sorrow of the loss, after a long illness, of the baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky. Born in Krasnoyarsk in 1962, Hvorostovsky was one of the most esteemed voices...
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Ceremony takes place for Dmitri Hvorostovsky in Moscow with family and...
A ceremony in Moscow gave an opportunity to friends, family and admirers of Dmitri Hvorostovsky to say farewell to the greatly admired singer, who died of brain cancer last week. The ceremony was held...
View Article[Interview] Russian baritone Aleksei Isaev: Music is not politics
Guest author Alisa Alekseeva talks to baritone Aleksei Isaev about being a Russian opera singer at this time.
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