This was the Russian baritone’s breakthrough moment at the finals of the 1989 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition.
Irresistible. And not quite 27 years old.
What we lost in Dmitri Hvorostovsky.
And a new video, released this weekend by the ROH:
The King has sent a message of support…
Rudolph Vrbsky, principal oboist of the National Symphony…
The over-booked Finn had a hard time at…
A new ensemble, La Philharmonica, is putting on…
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In the Faust video the similarities in sound between DH and Jonas Kaufmann are striking. At least the former knew who and what he was and branded himself accordingly.
Oh, for God’s sake.
What on earth are you on about?! And how is this appropriate only days after Hvorostovsky’s death? sometimes it’s really better just to shut up
What on earth do you mean? A bit like comparing an apple with a banana just because they’re both fruit or male singers. Nothing like each other!
I watched the Cardiff Singer 1989 live on TV and I almost fell off my chair when I heard him. Only 26, and everything already in place. And what heights he went on to scale. Oh we have lost such a wonderful singer and such a generous and gracious individual.
And no, we won’t forget. Never.
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