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Tag Archives: Dmitri Hvorostovsky
Seeing double: Kasper Holten’s Eugene Onegin returns to Covent Garden
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin **** The Royal Opera, 19th December 2015 The question I’d longed to ask Kasper Holten when his 2013 Royal Opera staging of Eugene Onegin opened was: if you’d had a younger soprano cast as Tatyana, would you … Continue reading
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Tagged Catherine Wyn-Rogers, David Shipley, Diana Montague, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Emily Ranford, Eugene Onegin, Ferruccio Furlanetto, James Platt, Jean-Paul Fouchécourt, Kasper Holten, Mia Stensgaard, Michael Fabiano, Nicole Car, Oksana Volkova, Royal Opera, Semyon Bychkov, Tchaikovsky
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С днём рождения, Rimsky-Korsakov!
Think Rimsky-Korsakov and your mind is probably drawn to Scheherazade or the equally colourful works written either side of it: Capriccio espagnol and the Russian Easter Festival Overture. Primarily, Rimsky considered himself an opera composer, composing sixteen of them between … Continue reading
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Tagged Aida Garifullina, Anna Netrebko, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Olga Borodina, Rimsky-Korsakov
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Park and Bark Central: Ernani at The Met
Verdi: Ernani Metropolitan Opera in HD, 25th February 2012 This was a very old-fashioned night at the opera – and you’re welcome to take that in whatever way you will. Here was Verdi’s gloriously melodic Ernani (the one with the … Continue reading
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Tagged Angela Meade, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Ernani, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Marcello Giordani, Marco Armiliato, Metropolitan Opera, Verdi
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