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    Armenia is a sacred place for me: Dmitri Hvorostovsky

    21:00, 28 September, 2013

    YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 28, ARMENPRESS. Russian popular baritone Dmitri
    Hvorostovsky will give a concert with the Armenian Philharmonic
    Orchestra within the framework of the festival "Yeravan Perspectives".
    Conductor Konstantion Orbelyan Junior will lead the orchestra during
    this exclusive concert. The works by Verdi, Belini, Wagner, Glinka,
    Rachmaninov, Bizet, Dunaevski, Pakhmutova, as well as Armenian
    composers Khachaturyan, Orbelyan and Babajanyan will be performed
    during the concert. Konstantin Orbelyan, who celebrates his 85th
    birthday this year, will be present at the concert. The maestro will
    perform the work "The Noise of the Birches."

    As reports `Armenpress" Dmitri Hvorostovski underscored: "I'm very
    glad to visit Armenia again. 7 years ago I was in Armenia for the
    first time. I liked your land very much. I have a number of Armenian
    friends all over the world. Your country is a sacred place for me. I
    am very happy that I'll give a concert together with the wonderful
    orchestra and my friend Konstantin Orbelyan. We've crossed this planet
    together for a couple of times. I arrived inArmenia a few hours ago
    and started rehearsing at once. I see that it's very beautiful, clean
    and sunny in here. The people are very nice.

    We come from Moscow, where the weather is nasty: it's very cold there,
    and here the sun is shining and it's very hot." Internationally
    acclaimed Russian baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky was born and studied in
    Krasnoyarsk, Siberia. In 1989, he won the prestigious Cardiff Singer
    of the World Competition. From the start, audiences were bowled over
    by his cultivated voice, innate sense of musical line and natural
    legato. After his Western operatic debut at the Nice Opera in
    Tchaikovsky's Pique Dame, his career exploded to take in regular
    engagements at the world's major opera houses and appearances at
    renowned international festivals, including the Royal Opera House,
    Covent Garden, New York's Metropolitan Opera, the Paris Opera, the
    Bavarian State Opera, the Salzburg Festival, the Teatro alla Scala
    Milan, the Vienna State Opera, and the Chicago Lyric Opera.

    A celebrated recitalist in demand in every corner of the globe--from
    the Far East to the Middle East, from Australia to South America--
    Hvorostovsky has appeared at such venues as Wigmore Hall, London;
    Queen's Hall, Edinburgh; Carnegie Hall, New York; the Teatro alla
    Scala, Milan; the Tchaikovsky Conservatoire, Moscow; the Liceu,
    Barcelona; the Suntory Hall, Tokyo; and the Musikverein, Vienna. The
    singer regularly performs in concert with top orchestras like the New
    York Philharmonic and the Rotterdam Philharmonic, and conductors,
    including James Levine, Bernard Haitink, Claudio Abbado, Lorin Maazel,
    Zubin Mehta, Yuri Termikanov and Valery Gergiev.

    Dmitri retains a strong musical and personal contact with Russia. He
    became the first opera singer to give a solo concert with orchestra
    and chorus on Red Square in Moscow; this concert was televised in over
    25 countries. Dmitri has gone on to sing a number of prestigious
    concerts in Moscow as a part of his own special series, `Dmitri
    Hvorostovsky and Friends'. He has invited such celebrated artists as
    Renee Fleming, Sumi Jo and Sondra Radvonosky. In 2005 he gave an
    historic tour throughout the cities of Russia at the invitation of
    President Putin, singing to crowds of hundreds of thousands of people
    to commemorate the soldiers of the Second World War. Dmitri now tours
    the cities of Russia and Eastern Europe on an annual basis.

    Dmitri Hvorostovsky's extensive discography spans recitals and
    complete operas. He has also starred in Don Giovanni Unmasked, an
    award-winning film (by Rhombus Media) based on the Mozart opera,
    tackling the dual roles of Don Giovanni and Leporello. Future events
    include Dmitri appearing at the MET, Covent Garden and Vienna opera
    houses.

    Forthcoming releases include a DVD starring Dmitri alongside Renee
    Fleming in a film set in St Petersburg and two new solo CDs;
    Tchaikovsky Songs and Songs on texts by Pushkin.

    Recently Dmitri has established a new collaboration with the Russian
    popular composer Igor Krutoi, with very successful concerts in Moscow,
    St Petersburg and Kiev.

    http://armenpress.am/eng/news/734787/armenia-is-a-sacred-place-for-me-dmitri-hvorostovsky.html

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