Bellini did pull the drama off, with a concise series of dramatic confrontations, in his greatest opera, Norma; here the plot gets off to a slow start, most of an over-long first act devoted to ...

Propelled by good looks and glasnost, this man with the mighty Siberian voice that was at once shining and dark had effortlessly driven his audience to near hysteria with a flawless technique, ...

TV star George Clarke found love again with a new woman after splitting from his wife in February. The Channel 4 Amazing Spaces star enjoyed a four-year marriage with his now estranged wife Katie ...

As part of its free, nightly streams programming, the Metropolitan Opera is offering two special themed weeks this month, each celebrating a legendary figure, director Franco Zeffirelli (the week of ...

(I) Puritani, Movements: ~ Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Baritone Vienna State Opera Orchestra Vincenzo Bellini, Composer (Il) Barbiere di Siviglia, '(The) Barber of Seville', Movements: ~ Dmitri Hvorostovsky, ...

An encore screening of the Metropolitan Opera production of “Il Trovatore” is set for the Ridgefield Playhouse. The 2015 live recording preserved the final performance at the Met by the great Russian ...

THE charismatic baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky, who has died aged 55, was a star of opera and one of the first major singers to emerge from Russia in the modern era. He enjoyed an international career ...

After a 21⁄2 years of battle with brain cancer, world-acclaimed baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky passed away at age 55 in his London home on Nov. 22. Diagnosed with brain tumor in 2015, the Russian ...

Friends, relatives, and fans of internationally acclaimed Russian opera star Dmitry Hvorostovsky have gathered in Moscow to bid farewell to the singer, who died of brain cancer last week. The ceremony ...

Back in the days when I was what my voice teacher dubbed a “baby-baritone” I had to live vicariously through the singers that I admired. We baby singers have a hard time coming up because of the sheer ...

Classical music has lost one of its most magisterial voices and commanding personas. Russian baritone Dimitri Hvorostovsky died at the age of 55 last week after a hard-fought battle with brain cancer.

Dmitri Hvorostovsky, the Russian baritone known for his velvety voice, dashing looks and shock of flowing white hair, died Wednesday at a hospice near his home in London, a few years after he was ...