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Russian Prince: Baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky puts aside his beloved Verdi to take on the role of Andrei Bolkonsky in the Metropolitan Opera's first-ever War and Peace.(Interview)

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| March 01, 2002 | Driscoll, F. Paul | COPYRIGHT 2002 Metropolitan Opera Guild, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Dmitri Hvorostovsky began his international career with a headline-making win at the 1989 Cardiff Singer of the World Competition, in which the twenty-seven-year-old Siberian took top honors in a group of finalists that included Bryn Terfel and Monica Groop. Now in his vocal prime, Hvorostovsky is making a long-term commitment to the repertory he calls his "dream": the great Verdi baritone roles. In October 2001, shortly after his thirty-ninth birthday, Hvorostovsky gave his first American performances as Rigoletto in Frank Corsaro's eyebrow-raising production for Houston Grand Opera, which presented the jester as a maddened, highly sexual "Italian Rasputin" viewing his ...

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