The Long Hangover of the Roaring Eighties
By TOM DEIGNAN
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Chaliapin, Kipnis, Christoff, Ghiaurov, Hvorostovsky. The lineage of great Eastern European male singers in the West remains unbroken, continuing this day with Dmitri Hvorostovsky. But Mr. Hvorostovsky is a bit different than his predecessors. Although he does sometimes challenge himself (with mixed results) to plumb the lower depths of his tessitura, he is that rare bird of paradise, a natural baritone. When unforced and relaxed, he is as good a singer as appears on any modern stage. A sold-out crowd at Avery Fisher Hall heard him traverse 200 years of Russian music from the sacred to the profane.
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|Chaliapin, Kipnis, Christoff, Ghiaurov, Hvorostovsky. The lineage of great Eastern European male singers in the West remains unbroken, continuing this day with Dmitri Hvorostovsky. But Mr. Hvorostovsky is a bit different than his predecessors. Although he does sometimes challenge himself (with mixed results) to plumb the lower depths of his tessitura, he is that rare bird of paradise, a natural baritone. When unforced and relaxed, he is as good a singer as appears on any modern stage. A sold-out crowd at Avery Fisher Hall heard him traverse 200 years of Russian music from the sacred to the profane.
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