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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 ...