What color! What energy! What beauty!

Who else as Don Carlo? DH was a King!

Forever the one and only, our divine Dmitrii Hvorostovskii...

Dima's voice is a masterpiece of nature ❤❤❤

Bravo!

In this moment he is one the great verdian baritone! Bravo!

Una Gran Estrella de la Ópera Internacional!!!

Che meraviglia il mio compositore preferito cantato da Dimitri con grande passione e bravura sarai sempre nel cuore di chi ti ama ancora perché un uomo così bravo e bello è un tesoro prezioso e non si dimentica

magnificent! what a great lost

Sicuro, bello, bravo. Era e resterà un Dio💗

magnifico controllo dei volumi e colori della voce. incredibilmente fantastico è ciò che si prova con un attento ascolto . meraviglioso Dima. la tua anima è straordinariamente viva nei tuoi canti e non smetterei mai di ascoltarti

magnifico sia nell, Opera che nella musica classica! fantastico interprete! spettacolare sentirlo e vederlo! mito e re dei baritoni!

Grande, unico indimenticabile!

Grande Dima, que pena tu marcha al infinito tan pronto

Unique and unforgettable. lovely Maestro Hvorostovskyi!!!!

Dima The Best forever!

Great singing !

Che meraviglia....chi lo fa meglio del meglio....solo lui dima....forever 🙏👑❤RIPOSA IN PACE MAESTRO 🙏❤

I've seen DH in Rigoletto and Simon Boccanegra, and in concert. He is a superb baritone; others may be as good, but no current baritone is better. Solid technique - great Verdian line - and expressive. We are fortunate to have this artist appearing so widely in the states..

I love this guys voice..... and his looks! Wow. stunning.. Everthing is about right.. This is a very difficult aria.. the fact that he does not put an A natural at the end.. is really not to be held against.. him.. He is singing the score!

Podría escucharlo hasta al infinito, grande, estupendo, DIMA, nunca me canso oír esa maravillosa voz!!!💙

fanatastico!

RECORDANDO UNA EXQUISITA VOZ

Estoy entusiasmada de poder oír esa maravillosavoz, fue alguien que supo usarla magistralmente, estoy apenada de no haberlo oído hasta ahora, pero agradezco el poder hacerlo, gracias por haber existido y regalado tus interpretaciones.

i like this video very much:) he is born for singing Verdi:)

Καλλιτέχνης του κόσμου κ των αιωνων

Восхищение и слезы от утраты

Наш Гений, наш Ангел, наш Друг !!!!!! Любим безмерно !!!!!!!!

Mi piace molto questa voce! Dispiace che non sia più tra noi. Un bel baritono che potrebbe insegnare ancora a molti. Grazie DMITRI, sempre con noi .

Çok güçlü ve etkili bir ses . Harika yorum . Onu dinlemek büyük bir zevk ne yazık ki verimli çağında bu dünyadan ayrıldı.

MARAVILLOSO

Verdi wrote 27 operas in his lifetime. "Ernani",opera in 4 acts, based on Victor Hugo's drama "Hernani" was written in 1844. It was a lesser known opera. But this aria of King of Castile from "Ernani" is one of my favoured, as sung by Dmitri Hvorostovsky.When Dmitri magnificent voice reverberates on stage, I can hear a voice of eternity.

DIVINE RUSSIAN VOICE !!! ENDLESS BRAVO Dear Dmitry Hvorostovsky !!! DIVINE MUSICIANS !!! ENDLESS BRAVO !!! DIVINE Maestro !!! ENDLESS BRAVO !!! GOD BLESS You !!! GOD BLESS The Your FANTASTIC TALENTS !!! Always with a lot of love and light Your eternal fan Nadya Mirkova and all my big family, and all my friends from Sofia - Bulgaria - Russia - Europe and all World !!!

Que puedo decir de ese maravilloso baritono buenisssssimo e sentido profundamente su muerte 😢😢😢😢😢👏👏👏👏👏

Magistral 👏👏👏

Dmitri e la sua voce sono sempre fra noi .

He sings this in a very lyrical fashion that I've not heard from a lot of the old singers, it makes him unique in my eyes. Definitely not worse. Please leave great singers of the past in the past, right now we have this man and men like him, and we should cherish them while we still do.

Yes, Giga, this clip brings thoughts of eternity, particularly when H. sings: ...della virtù com'aquila sui vanni m'alzerò, ah! e vincitor de' secoli il nome mio farò.” (Like an eagle I will raise myself on the wings of my virtù, ah! and I will make my name as the conqueror of centuries.) The lyrics here may be about Charles V’s political conquest of world-wide kingdoms but they bring to mind H’s artistic conquest of world-wide audiences. Maestro, R.I.P.

Дивный баритон, такое душевное исполнение, прямо слушаешь и его голос обволакивает тебя. Спасибо, наш Гений, наш Кумир навсегда...

Thanks to Dimitri I have become 'Verdi-fied" ! (Our Maestro looks a bit tired in this clip . Maybe working too hard, bless him ) xx

Yes, many times, actually. On Heroes and Villains, there are several of them. After all, you can hear it in Valentin's aria at this very concert. More than that, I have a recording where he sings a Bb.

this is the great human honesty in declaration, the honesty is the most important quality human qualityn and in this is presenting itself and the following scene must understand

una bellissima sala,creata per la voce...

Поклон!

:-) Please remember it's not just about the high notes. I think he just owns Di provenza il mar, Rodrigo's death or Il Balen del suo sorriso, not to mention the Russian repertoire. Please check some of these out, too. My fav Barbiere: watch?v=KE9OWvBRyQ4

The grestest baritone of all times!

Extraordinaire…! Et une diction superbe, aussi

beautiful, hope i will be able to see Ernani in the cinema :)))) in February, tickets are already at home :)

Wow!!! RIP 🌹

Grande interprete❤

Recordando otros tiempos felices, podría ser el sentido de esta aria, de este interprete fallecido hace poco tiempo, de un mal que nos afecta a una tercera parte de los humanos, pero que el tiempo suele difuminarlos.

Υψηλότατη,απλά!!!!!!αξία

Yo! Excellent! This is a fantastic aria, but quite evil to sing as that cello accompaniment is tenuous to say the least, and keeping pitch and timing must be extremely challenging especially in a big house. The Met Live version demonstrates that, as the stage and theatre are so cavernous he is having to watch the conductor like a hawk, and you can hardly hear the thready cello accompaniment. Here he is at his best.

Anche se il mio preferito rimane FRANCO CORELLI.....questo GRANDE cantante mi piace tantissimo......e molto bravo e BELLO......Cosa che non guasta mai....

@Baritenore those were all voices with a good deal more weight.. and heft.( and I like that too). .. Dimitri hasa medium weight voice.. and as such is quite flexible and lyrical.. In other words.. while I admire the singers you mention... greatly.. I also like this dude... I see them as different.. not necessarily better/worse.

@frufruJ Dmitri said in an interview i have read that he admires Bastianini :-) i don´t know why to insult H´s singing, he is great as well.

OK I'll check some of those out. I'm not really a fan of his but I guess he's one of the better current singers. :-)

Really? He's pretty secure up there. He is even heard in some of those "cage matches" on KZfaq. If you don't have any of his operatic CDs (too baaaad! :-) ), try here on YT Figaro's & Valentine's arias, Il Prologo from I Pagliacci, I believe.... I can't remember all the performances where he sings a high A, can anybody help?

Saw him live twice, both Verdi, his voice was just like on recordings. Don't make up shit.

Grande voce, peccato l'orchestra non capisce Verdi!

OK thanks. Just wondering. I had never heard him do so.

Maybe it' s just me, but we had Milnes who pretty much imitated Warren. & Now here we have Hvorostovsky imitating Bastianini:( Not a bad imitation @all. He really should sing the way he did when he won Cardiff's Singer of the world contest back in 89! There he sings much more open. It's got nothing 2 do w/him being older. Watch Bastianini's "live" performances her on KZfaq & U'll C it's very similar 2 how Dmitri is singing. He's definitely channeling the man. 4 that, great job Dmitri:)

❤💖

Great voice, but he gets a little too cute on things the way I hear that Fischer-Deskau did in his last years. Overall really fine, but a tendency to be too affected--portamentos where traditional they would not be placed. I don't mind the lack of the high A. I've heard it both ways and while it is impressive for baritones to hit it, this is one number that sounds better dramatically without it. As opposed to the end of Rigoletto where McNeill tossed it in and it was dynamite.

ESTA ARIA DE DON CARLO REY DE ESPAÑA,QUE SE ESTA PREPARANDO PARA SORPRENDER A LOS REBELDES que se deben reunir en este emplazamiento,de una capilla tras la tumba de Carlo Magno...? Y EL EMPERADOR DA ORDENES A DON. rICARDOpara detener los propósitos de los conjurados.

I don't find his dark colour appealing in Rossini, either, when listening to him *after* a "regular" baritone. I love his Verdi, he was not a bad Don Giovanni, and I love his arie antiche. You asked for a high A... ;-)

Dmitri is the greatest baritone ever born.You guys below can go play with wooden soldiers.

what do you mean, "Boo?" explain!!can you sing like this?? Eunegin

You're welcome. Go listen to the dead ones then, if you know better than us.

I guess when you're a "star", you don't have to pay attention to the note values!

Has Hvorostovsky ever sung a high A??

Ottima tecnica, suoni appoggiati. Interpretazione un po' giovanilistica, aliena dalla "gravitas" del personaggio (quanto meno in quest'atto, non nel primo).

It's not just about the high notes, true, but aside from that I don't find the basic coloring of his voice to be too appealing. After listening to Macneil sing this beautifully and cap it with a booming A natural this is a wee bit disappointing ;-D He's a good actor and of course, good at Russian.

He had to have been mic'd when you saw him. Don't be stupid. Listen to the two youtube clips I said to listen to. There is NO ARGUMENT that there is a difference. And his voice is like the Traviata clip. I saw him MORE than twice and at the Met. Don't comment on things you know nothing about. Your need to believe that he sounds great doesn't change reality.

HUGE LOSS

Mah... ognuno si fa bastare quel che gli basta.

No, you don't *know* for a fact that he isn't being mic'd. And I wrote that he is being enhanced. And opera houses have admitted to it. Look up the article in the NY Times where they discuss it and admit it. I have heard him also. This is not some unknown thing. Maybe you are unaware of it, but it has been written about and documented.You just have to bother to look it up. I also have posted a video on my channel where the audience erupts in screams because they hear mics. You are in denial.

Chicken. Listen to Macneil.

Non mi piace affatto . il vecchio

That's funny because I heard him live also many times. At the Met etc. And his voice was ALWAYS very small and hooty. Perhaps you are hearing him enhanced as many of the houses are doing now. And they admit they are doing it. I know many who heard him early on as well and said it was puny in small recital halls. I am sorry, but the audiences are being duped, and your comments are proof of that.

I'm still waiting for your NYT article citation-or any of the many reliable sources you claim exist Strange silence on your end-but I suppose you'll continue your unproved nonsense elsewhere I wonder why I never thought of my great point before-if what you say is true and universal why do so many voices sound so meager when you hear them live-volume wouldn't be a problem according to you really pulled the rug out from your contention

This is enhanced. He sounds NOTHING like this in person. The voice is puny and hooty. No squillante. Listen to the 2012 Met recording of Traviata with Dessay. That is what he sounds like, not this mic'd and enhanced crap.

You and your obsessive fantasy about miking. I've heard him live enough times-his voice is not "puny and hooty" He is an elegant, stylish singer, with great breath control-but the truth is, it is not a large voice-but outside of the Met I'd imagine amplitude would be less of an issue. If we are comparing it to the great Verdi baritones of the past he comes up short. The voice really can't soar, and the top doesn't have a real ping. Given the inelegant bellowers around to day-his fame makes sense

I KNOW he was not being miked-I described his voice honestly. I know when you can you ban people who disagree with you-but provide -prova-instead of coming across like an internet maniac-put together with irrefutable evidence a real investigative piece-if done properly a real publication would love it-otherwise you're tiresome My other point would be-if what you say is universally true-and we're all duped why are the voices so small and inadequate??? size shouldn't be an isssue then-and it is

Look it up yourself. lol It was in 2006. People like you won't listen anyway. It is pointless to engage you in anything. You have a need to believe in something and nothing will change that.