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Tchaikovsky
Eugen Onegin - Polonaise
Mussorgsky
Khovanshchina - Streltzy's Nest is Sleeping Soundly
Rubinshtein
Demon - Na Vosdushnom okeane
Tchaikovsky
Capriccio Italian
Tchaikovsky
The Queen of Spades - O, tak poslushaite... Odnazhdy v Versale
Rachmaninoff
Aleko - Ves tabor spit
Borodin
Prince Igor - Ni sna, ni otdykha
Rossini
Guglielmo Tell - Resta immobile
Verdi
Un Ballo in Maschera - Alzati... Eri tu, che macchiavi
Rossini
La Gazza Ladra - Ouverture
Verdi
Il Trovatore - Tutto è deserto.. Il Balen del suo sorriso
Ravel
La Valse
Verdi
Rigoletto - Cortigiani, vil razza dannata
We would like, even during this extraordinary situation, for the Müpa Budapest audience to still be able to encounter the world's most outstanding and thrilling artists each evening - this time in their own homes. It is precisely for this reason that we will open Müpa Budapest's virtual concert hall and auditoriums - each night at the familiar times - by providing access to a single unforgettable performance from past years.
The performance will be broadcasted on our website and YouTube channel.
In the summer of 2013, two stars of the opera world, Anna Netrebko and Dmitri Hvorostovsky, sang a selection of arias and duets before an audience of 7,500 on Moscow's Red Square. Recognisable for both his velvety voice and characteristic shock of silver hair, Hvorostovsky once featured among People magazine's 50 most beautiful people. His death - after a long illness - in 2017 was a painful loss for the music world.
He gained international fame in 1989 when he won the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition, triumphing over Bryn Terfel, and today is sought after for leading roles in Russian opera the world over. The New York Times has described him as born to play the title role in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, but he has also achieved spectacular success in the part of the elder Germont in Verdi's La Traviata.
A regular guest performer at the New York Metropolitan, Berlin State Opera, London's Covent Garden, Vienna State Opera and La Scala in Milan, Hvorostovsky sang at the Béla Bartók National Concert Hall from a repertoire for which one could scarcely find a better performer. He was accompanied by an orchestra which, though founded in 1936, was only able to acquire an international reputation after 1991 for obvious political reasons. The Yekaterinburg-based Ural Philharmonic Orchestra has performed - and continues to perform - with the leading Russian artists, giving some 100 concerts annually. The list of its collaborators over the years includes greats such as Emil Gilels, Boris Berezovsky, Denis Matsuev, Gidon Kremer, Mstislav Rostropovich, Natalia Gutman and Valery Gergiev. Dmitry Liss, the conductor for this concert who has led the ensemble for more than two decades, is a living repository of the great Russian conducting tradition.
This recording was made at a concert held at Müpa Budapest on 2 April 2016.
Presented by: Müpa Budapest
