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International Dmitry Hvorostovsky Festival starts in Krasnoyarsk

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International Dmitry Hvorostovsky Festival starts in Krasnoyarsk


16.10.2019

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The festival named after Dmitry Hvorostovsky opens on Wednesday, October 16, according to the website of the Ministry of Culture. It is dedicated to the birthday of the famous singer and will take place in his hometown - Krasnoyarsk.

The first event of the program will be the performance of Verdi's Requiem. Tomorrow, the local audience will meet with Juan Diego Flores. He is called one of the best tenors of our day. The festival program praises such big names of the world opera as Angela Gheorghiu, Sergey Leiferkus, Stephen Costello, Evgeniy Stavinsky and Julia Gertseva. The conductor’s panel will be taken by the artistic director of the Krasnoyarsk Symphony Orchestra Vladimir Land and maestro Eugene Cohn from the United States.

 Rachmaninov’s operas The Miserly Knight and Aleko, which are rarely performed in theaters of the world, will be presented at the festival. The soloists of the Bolshoi Theater and the Musical Theater named after Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko and the Krasnoyarsk Opera and Ballet Theater will take part in it. The gala concert Musical Olympus will unite the performances of the laureates of the International Tchaikovsky Competition. Another concert will be dedicated to Russian chamber music. Soloist Julia Gertseva and pianist Lev Vinokur will present works from the repertoire of Dmitry Hvorostovsky.

This year the guest of the festival will be the Astana Opera and Ballet Theater. Tchaikovsky’s opera Eugene Onegin will be performed by Kazakh artists.

Russkiy Mir reported that the famous singer who died in the fall of 2017 was diagnosed with a brain tumor. Dmitry Hvorostovsky struggled with the disease and continued to perform with concerts. In June 2017, he took part at the Grafenegg Festival in Austria.

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