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Article: Poster Boys.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- February 11, 2002
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The world loves young, dashing, talented, and handsome, so the baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky and the conductor Christian Thielemann have the world by the tail. Each is a star, with his image splashed all over the place. But each is also a worthy musician, an excellent practitioner of his craft. They deserve their stardom (which is always nice). Lately, they've been strutting their stuff in New York, and we will take a moment to examine that stuff.
Hvorostovsky comes from Krasnoyarsk, Siberia (known to Cold Warriors as the site of the ABM Treaty-violating Soviet radar). His looks are not only dashing, but exotic, which does him no harm on the operatic stage. He is ...
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Article: Hvorostovsky: the phenom of the opera
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...People go crazy over Dmitri Hvorostovsky, but the young baritone seems ... the occasion of the release of Hvorostovsky's second album, a collection ... MCA Classics) announces that Hvorostovsky "bowls over" audiences "with ...
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