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Dmitri Hvorostovsky

Diana Damrau in Bellini's "I Puritani.'

At the Met, the Diva Is the Director

So in a practical sense whatever happened dramatically in this Puritani was driven by Damrau aggressive physicality, darting and swooping and twitching to express the heroine's incipient madness.
By James Jorden
D’mitri Hvorostovsky.

The Top 6 Moments of the 2015-16 NY Classical Music Season

During the 2015-16 season, the greatest musicians in the world came, saw and usually conquered the greatest city in the world.
By Raymond Beegle
The Met's 'Il Trovatore'. (Courtesy, The Metropolitan Opera)

The Met’s Triumphant ‘Il Trovatore’ Is a Return to Opera’s Golden Age

This throwback to the golden age of opera—superhuman singing greeted with frenzied ovations—was a function of a perfect storm of excitement.
By James Jorden

Take Me to Your Lieder: Bostridge, Goerne Sing Out

By Charles Michener
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