As birthday approaches, opera icon Hvorostovsky keeps singing despite battling cancer
Russia’s star baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky plans to celebrate his birthday on October 16 at the Old Opera in Frankfurt, just after finishing cancer treatment. “Life is wonderful. I take each day as joy and as a victory. My voice sounds great,” proclaimed Hvorostovsky. He also added that during the course of his chemotherapy he sang every day. “Until the next treatment, I am working and will most likely keep working...
Russian opera star Hvorostovsky to debut on Bolshoi’s stage in December
The Bolshoi Theatre has not received any official notification that Russian baritone Dmitry Hvorostovsky would not sing in Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Don Carlos in December, the theatre’s Spokeswoman Katerina Novikova told TASS. Hvorostovsky is to make his first appearance on the Bolshoi stage in Verdi’s “Don Carlos” on December 7 and 10. The production staged by British Stage Director Adrian Noble saw its first night at the...
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