Dmitri Hvorostovsky

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Dmitri Hvorostovsky (2011)

Dmitri Hvorostovsky and Dmitri Hvorostovsky ( Russian Дмитрий Александрович Хворостовский [ xvərɐstofskʲɪj ] * 16th October 1962 in Krasnoyarsk , USSR ; †  22. November 2017 in London , Great Britain ) was a Russian -britischer opera singer ( baritone ).

Life

Hvorostovsky studied singing in Krasnoyarsk and made his debut at the State Opera House there as Marullo in Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto . Hvorostovsky gained international attention when he won the Cardiff Singer of the World competition in 1989 - ahead of the actually favored Bryn Terfel . His debut outside of the USSR took place in the same year at the Opéra de Nice , where he appeared in Tchaikovsky's opera Queen of Spades.

From then on, Hvorostovsky had engagements at most of the well-known opera houses worldwide. At the Teatro La Fenice in Venice he sang the role of Eugene Onegin in the opera of the same name by Tchaikovsky - a role which, in the opinion of many critics, was particularly successful. He made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera in 1995 as Prince Jeletzki in Tchaikovsky's opera Pique Dame . In 2013 he sang the title role of Rigoletto in Michael Mayer's controversial production . He sang at the Covent Garden Opera House in London , at La Scala in Milan and at the Unter den Linden State Opera in Berlin, where he was heard and seen in various roles.

From 1994, Hvorostovsky lived in London and acquired British citizenship in addition to his Russian citizenship.

In 2016 he announced that he would do without opera roles in the future because of a brain tumor . At the end of May 2016 he sang again in St. Petersburg, on June 2, 2016 he was on stage for the last time in his hometown of Krasnoyarsk. His last opera appearance was on November 29, 2016 as Giorgio Germont in La traviata at the Vienna State Opera .

Hvorostovsky last appeared in public on June 22, 2017 together with Aida Garifullina at the summer night gala in Grafenegg / Austria.

He died from cancer on November 22nd, 2017 in London. Half of his ashes were buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow and half in the cemetery in his native Krasnoyarsk.

family

In 1989 Hvorostovsky married Svetlana Ivanova (1959–2015), a ballet dancer at the theater in Krasnoyarsk, whose daughter he adopted from his first marriage. The couple moved to London and twins were born in 1996. However, the marriage was marked by scandals surrounding his wife and the singer's increasing alcohol problems. This was followed by the divorce in 2001, the course and financial details of which were followed by a broad public as a result of a court case brought by Svetlana.

His second marriage was to the Swiss singer Florence Illi, whom he had met in Geneva in 1999. From this marriage a son (2003) and a daughter (2007) followed.

Awards (selection)

Web links

Commons : Dmitri Hvorostovsky  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Metropolitan Opera Association. Retrieved July 6, 2019 .
  2. ^ David Mermelstein: I Have to Fly in Order to Sing. The Wall Street Journal , September 2, 2009 (English).
    Opera singer Dmitri Chworostowski is dead: a path from rock to classical music. RT Deutsch , November 22, 2017, accessed on November 23, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Michael Cooper: Watch Dmitri Hvorostovsky's Surprise Return to the Met Opera. In: New York Times . May 9, 2017, accessed May 9, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Program archive of the Vienna State Opera. Retrieved August 4, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Archive: Midsummer Night's Gala 2017 . Retrieved March 3, 2018.
  6. ↑ Moscow Nights / Grafenegg Summer Night Gala (excerpt). Retrieved March 3, 2018.
  7. ↑ Тамара Ходова (Tamara Chodowa): Оперная звезда и настоящий рокер: из жизни ушел Дмитрий Хворостовский. RIA Novosti , November 22, 2017, accessed November 22, 2017 (Russian).
  8. ^ People's Artist of Russia, opera singer Dmitri Hvorostovsky. TASS , November 22, 2017, accessed November 23, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Silver-Maned Baritone From Siberia, Dies at 55. In: The New York Times . November 22, 2017, accessed December 28, 2018 .
  10. ↑ (7995) Khvorostovsky = 1983 PX = 1974 TF1. (PDF) Minor Planet Center , accessed on November 27, 2017 .
  11. ^ Austrian music theater awards to Damrau and Kang . APA article in Salzburger Nachrichten , June 28, 2016, accessed on November 22, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Hvorostovsky, Dmitri
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chworostowski, Dmitri Alexandrovich; Хворостовский, Дмитрий Александрович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-British opera singer (baritone)
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Krasnoyarsk , Soviet Union
DATE OF DEATH 22nd November 2017
Place of death London , UK